ARTC Asbestos Cleanup
- Locations Forrest, Western Australia
- Client Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC)
- Contract Clean up of Asbestos Containing Materials
- Cost $400,000
- Duration Four weeks
McMahon Services was contracted by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to undertake the clean up of asbestos sheeting debris from various locations adjacent to the main east-west rail line at Forrest in Western Australia.
The challenges of the projects included:
- The remote location, 80km from the South Australian - Western Australian border
- All Personnel, plant and equipment were mobilised from Adelaide, as no resources were available on site
The asbestos clean up works included:
- A Henpick of asbestos debris from five individual areas totalling 130,000m2
- Removal of friable asbestos floor backing material from concrete slabs
- Scraping and validation of 23 individual survey peg sites
- Consolidation of existing dumped asbestos and collected asbestos debris into one site repository
The site repository was capped with a layer of geogrid and one metre of clean fill. All work was independently inspected and validated to the full satisfaction of the client.
