The ATC Williams approach to ‘Facility Closure’ focuses on tangible and effective outcomes. When a landform reaches the end of its useful life, the critical decommissioning phase involves a closure strategy that reduces risk to the owner. Timely attention to closure and a cost-effective closure approach combine to reduce holding costs and financial assurance liability.

Our primary service offerings in closure and rehabilitation include:

• Planning for closure, initiated at the outset or at any project stage
• Geochemical characterisation of waste materials, particularly mineralised mine tailings or waste rock
• Risk assessment as a basis for planning and design to achieve a safe and long term sustainable outcome
• Design of closure capping systems, specialising in capping across soft tailings and other compressible substrate (including landfills)
• Regulator referrals and approvals
• Construction support and performance monitoring of closure works