Tailings Dam Raise
Project Timing: 01/2015– 04/2015
Project Value: $2,200,000
Client details: BHP (Coal Projects)
removal of existing features in construction footprint:
tailings pipelines, valves, spigots and bollards
topsoil stockpiles
excavation and preparation of embankment foundations
placement and compaction of earthfill materials in three zones to construct the embankment raise:
Coarse coal rejects embankment core
1B outer embankment
1A (clay) inner embankment
topsoiling, hydromulching and seeding of downstream batter of the raised embankments;
reinstatement of the tailings pipelines on the crest of the partial raise