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Land management assessments
Tonkin & Taylor’s land management assessment services cover diverse disciplines that align with our geotechnical and soil contamination expertise.
Expertise
- Water quality investigations
- Property development liability investigations (land contamination)
- Rehabilitation plans
- Environmental and construction/geotechnical management plans
- Salinity investigations
- Phytophthora testing
- Planning permit applications.
Experience
Typical project experience includes:
- Property Development Liability Investigation,
Diggers Rest - assessment of geotechnical, flora
and fauna and soil contamination as a prepurchase
investigation. A preliminary investigation
assessment to determine the potential for liability
across a 260 ha site was undertaken. A desktop
and walkover flora and fauna assessment and a
soil contamination assessment (with limited
analysis) provided our client with an understanding
of environmental considerations for the properties.
A net gain assessment determined offset
requirements for vegetation removal. Similarly
the geotechnical investigation provided details
of construction requirements for pavements and
buildings.
- Environmental Management Plan for
sub-division, Bayswater North - a plan detailing
the requirements for environmental considerations,
such as sediment/erosion control, soil stabilisation,
protection of environmentally significant areas,
noise control and vegetation removal. A flora and
fauna assessment was also undertaken at this site.
• Phytophthora analysis on construction material -
Phytophthora cinnamomi (Cinnamon Fungus) is a
root rot pathogen that destroys the roots of many
native and introduced plants and has been found
in quarries that provide construction materials for
earthworks. Policies and guidelines recommend
testing of construction materials to prevent the
spread of this pathogen to new areas. Assessments
have been undertaken for many quarries in the
Melbourne metropolitan area.
- Ongoing water investigation at potential landfill site
- Regular sampling and analysis of water at the base
of an operating quarry in the south-eastern growth
corridor of Melbourne.
- Planning permit following soil contamination,
surface water and geotechnical investigations at
a former quarry site in Melbourne - provision of
advice on rehabilitation plans, discussions with
regulatory authorities, provision of construction
management plans, EPBC referral, de-watering
plan and management of sub-contractors providing
flora and fauna (and net gain) reports and traffic
management reports.
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