Spill Response: Are You Prepared?
Spill response is a critical issue for all organisations dealing with chemicals, fuels or other hazardous liquids. When it comes to spill response, are you prepared? Not surprisingly, these days, an organisation’s preparedness for an environmental incident can be a reflection of its management’s pro-active attitude towards its overall environmental responsibility. That’s a good thing, […]
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How to control silt during construction projects
Land based construction companies and developers face a myriad of environmental concerns, many of which revolve around how to control silt and prevention of silt and sediment running into the drains and waterways. Storm water management needs to become one of the elements of a project that the developer addresses in the planning stage. Too […]
Marine silt control – It’s a boom….or busted
At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, there is an increasing community focus on the actions of marine construction activities (and companies) to prevent pollution of our waterways. We, as a society, have applied the veritable blow torch to the environmental managers within these businesses to not only improve their environmental performance, but also […]
Types of Spill Kit – Are they all the same?
Whilst having a spill response kit is a positive move for a business in addressing its environmental awareness (and compliance) the types of spill kit need to be the right one for the risk in its vicinity.If you have a car park, for example, the main risk of spill is for oils and fuels to […]
Oil Containment Booms and Fence Booms for NSW Fire Brigades
Chatoyer designed and fabricated a combination of containment booms and fence booms for NSW Fire Brigades. The emergency spill response equipment needed to be be hand carried to specific incidents and deployed rapidly with ease. Project Overview Date: May, 2009 Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Features Summary Materials used: Each boom is 10.0m long Design: Fire […]
Filtration Curtains to prevent solids entering drinking water reservoir
The brief is to manufacture two filtration curtains to prevent solids entering drinking water reservoir. These custom silt curtains face an inlet into a dammed reservoir and are put in place to reduce forest debris in the system. By reducing the debris, there would be reduced water processes for the Silvan drinking water treatment plant. […]
Primary Containment Silt Curtain for Dredging and Reclamation
To supply, deliver and install aquatic silt curtain and innovative primary containment curtain to facilitate dredging operations in Port Kembla. Project Overview Date: November, 2010 Location: Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia Features Summary Boom Length: 820m with variable skirt depth from 9m to 12m deep 190m with 2.4m skirt depth for reclamation zone Float: UV Resistant PVC Ballast: […]
Heavy Duty Containment Boom with Absorption for the Royal Australian Navy
To design and manufacture a unique heavy duty containment boom with patented absorbtion boom attached. The boom was to be housed in a unique system operating from a 40′ container allowing rapid deployment and convenient storage. Project Overview Date: August, 2010 Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia Features Summary Boom Length: Each boom is 12.0m long […]
Silt Curtain to Contain Debris at National Maritime Museum Forecourt Renovation
To supply, deliver and install aquatic silt curtain to contain debris from forecourt renovation works at the National Maritime Museum. Project Overview Date: December, 2010 Location: Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Australia Features Summary Boom Length: 120m with 1m skirt depth Boom Material: UV Resistant PVC Float: Closed Cell PE Foam Ballast: 6mm galvanised chain […]
