RIX Design & Build Custom Rock Drilling Rig Pt1

RIX were recently invited by our Client to complete works on the Jindabyne Dam Spillway. The project is part of the "Water For Rivers Program", which will restore environmental flows to the water starved Snowy River. The river originates from a height of 2.2km on the slopes of Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mainland peak, draining the eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, before flowing through the Snowy River National Park in Victoria and emptying into Bass Strait 350km later.

RIX originally began works on the spillway in 2004 and were happy to return to install the final rockbolts and shotcrete.
Seen here is RIX's custom engineered Drilling Basket. This enabled us to drill the 100mm diameter,12m deep rockbolts into the granite surrounding the Spillway.