2018 Tas CCF Earth Awards Winner - Project Value $30M-$75M
In 2016/17 Hazell Bros was engaged by MMG to upgrade the Rosebery Tailings Dam. Some of the works included:
36 hectares of clearing and grubbing
100,000m3 of topsoil stripping
1,000,000m3 of excavation in rock
2,500m3 of cement bentonite into a 600mm wide wall
Installation of 190,000m2 of flexible bitumen liner
Project
Conglomerate Dam Upgrade
Location
Rosebery
Client
TasWater
Status
Completed 2018
Built in 1971 of earth and rockfill construction, Conglomerate Dam has a storage capacity of 53.1ML. In 2017 Hazell Bros was engaged by TasWater to undertake an upgrade of the dam. Some of the works included:
Installation of full height buttress filters and rockfill weighting berm
Demolition of existing & construction of the new high capacity spillway 1:10000
Raising the impervious level and crest level of the embankment
Installation of multi-level intake structure with centralised valve operation
Upgrading dam instrumentation and telemetry
25000m3 of imported and placed rock buttress and filter materials