Kinross Business Park Stage 9

Scope of Works

Stage 9 of the Kinross Industrial Estate required the importation of 40,000m3 of sand from a stockpile located on the other side of a major Road. Neumann Contractors were challenged to develop a technique where the sand could transferred hydraulically through a pipeline and placed directly into the embankment.

We could not use conventional dredging equipment due to the sensitivity of the local groundwater aquifer. Neumann proposed to use captured bore water (extracted under license) to feed a dry feed bin that would blend the sand and water and then pump the slurry under the Road to the fill area.

Neumann designed and fabricated the dry feed bin and then designed and constructed a bore water holding pond at the stockpile site. We installed a pump in the holding dam that fed the dry feed bin with the bore water, and a slurry booster pump was connected to the outlet of the bin. Twin 315mm poly pipelines were installed from the booster pump, under the Road and to the fill area. The team used one pipeline to deliver the slurry to the fill area, and we used the second to return the slurry supernatant water back to the holding pond for reuse. The sand was loaded into the dry feed bin with wheel loaders working in conjunction with dual-screen hopper stockpilers.