RPS contributes to World Environment Day award win

RPS’ Newcastle team has been acknowledged for its contribution over the past four years on BHP Billiton’s Hunter River Remediation Project (HRRP) which won the Environmental Best Practice Program Award at the prestigious United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) World Environment Day Awards.

RPS has been involved in this project for more than four years across Ecology, Survey and most recently Archaeology. This award recognises the project’s environmental systems and achievements that have set a new industry benchmark for remediation.

The project has numerous challenges and some significant environmental complexities, the most sensitive being the impacts on a known local population of the Green and Golden Bell frog. RPS has been involved in the impact assessment through to the development of compensatory offset management plans and their implementation for this species.