Environmental Monitoring
RCA Laboratories (Environmental) currently provides services to coal mines in NSW. Environmental monitoring for these sites includes the operation of a site based weather station, depositional dust monitoring, High Volume Air Sampling, surface water sampling, groundwater sampling and environmental noise monitoring. Ambient Air Quality Monitoring RCA currently undertakes ambient air quality monitoring in the suburb […]
Pasminco Cockle Creek Smelter Site
RCA has been sub-consultant to WSP Environmental on the ongoing remediation of the former Pasminco Cockle Creek Smelter in Boolaroo since early 2006. The project manager for the remediation and development of the site is Ferrier Hodgson. The site is being remediated to address, predominantly, lead contaminated soils originating from both dust deposition and the placement […]
Kooragang Island Waste Emplacement Facility (KIWF) Closure Works
RCA was engaged by SMEC as specialist geotechnical/environmental sub-consultants as part of the overall provision by SMEC for detailed design, documentation and other services for Hunter Development Corporation. Specifically, RCA has provided review and assessments of previous information as part of a Design Reference Report for the capping of the landfill which, in total, is […]
Koppers Barrier Cut-Off Wall
On behalf of Koppers Carbon Materials and Chemicals, RCA is about to commence supervision of a significant cement bentonite slurry barrier cut-off wall and environmental monitoring at the Mayfield site in Newcastle. The wall, which will be 417m in length and have an average depth of 18m, will isolate DNAPL contaminants (mainly Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons) originating […]
Site Investigation For Hunter Development Corporation
RCA Australia environmental section has recently undertaken targeted site investigations for Hunter Development Corporation (HDC) on the former steelworks site as part of Stage 2 works to determine specific locations of contaminated soils and underground structures. The work was undertaken with the aid of old BHP drawings, site knowledge of former activities and structures, using CAD to […]