Project Overview
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is a Federal Australian Government owned statutory corporation, established in July 1998, that manages, builds, operates, maintains, extends and upgrades the majority of Australia’s interstate rail network.
McMahon Services were contracted for a two-year period to deliver 24/7 call and environmental incident response and management services for the ARTC rail network across Queensland, Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
McMahon Services are contracted to support ARTC in metropolitan, regional and country locations along 8,500km of ARTC owned and operated track. The contract was awarded in part because of McMahon Services’ successful track record in providing similar oil spill emergency response services on a state-wide basis for SA Power Networks.
McMahon Services expanded its fleet of vacuum trucks with the purchase of two new Jamieson 8×4 Combo Isuzu vacuum trucks for use on the incident response and management services contract for the South Australian region.
The new vacuum trucks were selected in part for their shorter lengths which allows them to operate in constrained sites that our other models were not able to achieve. Despite their small sizes, they are still capable of transporting up to 10,000L of liquid waste materials from sites.
Each truck is fitted with dual 1500cfm (42m³/min) liquid ring pumps that allows for variation in the vacuum to efficiently extract water, hydrocarbons, thick sludge and other liquid materials of varying density and viscosity. This feature saves on both fuel and time taken to complete remediation works. A 5000psi (34MPa) high-pressure hydro unit allows for fast and efficient site clean ups after vacuuming is complete.
The incident response and management services are a national operation coordinating people, plant and equipment from McMahon Services offices in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Port Pirie.
