Port Coogee - Public Environmental Review

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Client: 
Australand
Locations: 
RPS services: 
Audits and Reviews
Contaminated Land
Emergency Preparedness
Engineering - Safety and Risk
HSE, Risk Management & Training
Project and Operations Management and Support
Quality, Health, Safety and Environment
Risk Management Studies
Safety Cases/Safety Reports
Supportive Software
Training
Water

The 80ha Port Coogee site, proposed for residential, commercial and marina development, was previously occupied by abattoirs, fellmongers, tanneries, wool scourers, chemical manufacture, powerhouses, and skin and hide drying sheds. For RPS, the project involved: hazardous materials survey, soil and groundwater testing, human health risk assessment (including all common exposure pathways) plus plant uptake and consumption of home-grown produce), environmental risk assessment (3D contaminant transport and fate modelling for trace metals, pesticides, PAH and hydrocarbons in soil and groundwater to estimate impact on marine water quality) and remedial option assessment.

The site was audited by a contaminated sites auditor and has now been successfully remediated. The contaminated sites investigation, groundwater transport and fate modelling and human health risk assessment was completed ahead of schedule and was endorsed without comment by the then Department of Environment, which incorporated the Water and Rivers Commission, the forerunner to the current Department of Water. Work at Port Coogee was undertaken between 1996 to present.