Independent consulting · Revegetation & Dust Suppression
Independent advice on dust control and land rehabilitation, and contractors held to the result.
ATUM is an independent consultancy for mining, civil, energy and defence sites. I assess what your dust or rehabilitation conditions actually require, write the plans and specifications your approval calls for, and arrange or oversee the application so the result holds.
How I work
Assess, plan, apply, sustain
Every engagement follows the same four steps. You can stop after either of the first two.
1. Assess
Understand the site
Location, surfaces, traffic, exposure, and the conditions you have to meet and by when.
2. Plan
Write it down
The management plan, specification or scope your approval and your contractor both need: method, product options, rates, timing, and a budget range.
3. Apply
Get it done
Crews I arrange and oversee, or your own team or contractor working to the specification.
4. Sustain
Make it hold
Re-application schedule or establishment monitoring, and a record for your environmental team and the regulator.
Start here
Independent advice and the documents to back it
Consulting and site assessment
Independent assessment of your dust or rehabilitation problem, a method that fits, and a plan you can put in front of a regulator.
- On-site assessment
- Remote review of plans and conditions
- Written specifications
- Trial areas
Environmental plans and documentation
The plans your approval, licence or contract asks for, written by someone who also knows how the work is done on the ground: dust, erosion and sediment, rehabilitation and remediation.
- Dust management plans
- Erosion and sediment control plans
- Rehabilitation plans and scoping
- Remediation and reinstatement plans
Then, if you want it delivered
Dust suppression
Dust control on haul roads, stockpiles, laydown areas and exposed ground, specified to suit the surface and delivered to that specification.
Revegetation and land rehabilitation
Re-establishing vegetation on batters, disturbed ground, stockpiles and closed areas using hydroseeding and hydromulching.
Product supply
Dust suppressants, binders, mulch and seed mixes matched to your ground and supplied for crews who prefer to apply with their own equipment.
Who I work with
Built for the conditions on your kind of site
Mining
Dust control on haul roads and stockpiles, and progressive rehabilitation of disturbed areas, on operating and closing sites.
Civil and infrastructure
Dust and erosion control during earthworks, and revegetation of batters and corridors at completion.
Energy and renewables
Dust suppression during construction and revegetation of solar farms, wind farm access tracks, transmission corridors and gas sites.
Government and local councils
Dust, erosion and rehabilitation on council and government land: quarries, depots, road reserves, reserves, landfill caps and works sites, with the plans and records public bodies are expected to keep.
Independent landholders
Practical advice for farmers, graziers and private landowners dealing with dust, erosion or bare ground, including land affected by someone else's project.
I also work with defence sites under their access and compliance requirements.
Why ATUM
An independent view, stated plainly
Contractors held to their results
I have seen too many projects where corners were cut and the outcome was poor, with nobody made to answer for it. A specification before the work and an independent review after it changes that.
Independent of any one product
I am not selling a suppressant or a seed mix. The recommendation is whatever suits your surface, conditions and budget, including doing less than a supplier might suggest.
Plans written by someone who does the work
Dust management, erosion and sediment control, and rehabilitation plans that match what will actually happen on site, so they survive the first inspection.
Sized for small to medium projects
A single haul road, a set of batters or a works compound is a normal job. The assessment and the delivery are scoped to the size of the problem.
Help getting it done, if you want it
Application crews arranged and overseen, or product supplied with rates and guidance for your own team. Advice never depends on you buying either.
Have a site with dust or rehabilitation conditions to meet?
Send the location, area and what you need to meet. I will come back with what an assessment would cover and a fixed fee where I can, with no obligation to go further.