NADA Dairy Farm (“NADA”) commissioned Virotec to assist with the odour control of the manure and utilise our technologies to value-add and find beneficial uses for their waste organic residues, including an option to compost the generated manure and other organic residues. Virotec’s solution involved blending the raw material feedstock to produce three grades of […]
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Queensland Rail is committed to ensuring that rail remains Australia’s most environmentally sound method of large-scale transportation. The lead-contaminated water produced from Queensland Rail’s railway bridge maintenance was being released into the surrounding environment, which posed a potential risk. To minimize their environmental impact and as part of their internal water conservation campaign, Queensland Rail […]
READ MOREGladstone Port Authority
Gladstone Port Authority in Queensland, Australia, was experiencing problems with sulphidic marine clays (acid sulphate soils) resulting from its past dredging and land reclamation operations. Due to a planned change in a railway siding and loop line approximately 30,000 cubic metres of this sulphidic marine sediment was excavated and stockpiled. This stockpiled material oxidized and became acidic, resulting in […]
READ MOREMt Carrington Tailings Dam Treatment
“Following treatment using Virotec’s technology, the treated water was 100 times cleaner than drinking water”. Following the closure of Mt Carrington Gold and Silver mine in the early 1990’s, a legacy of over 100 years of mining was left in the form of a severely contaminated tailings dam. This 14 ha tailings dam had been […]
READ MORETasmanian Paper – Site Remediation Project
Australian Paper is one Australia’s largest pulp and paper mills had ceased production. The company wanted to sell or re-use the site but the local and state regulators would not allow this to happen until all of the necessary demolition and remediation work was complete. After 40 years of continuous operation, the site was heavily contaminated […]
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