ProgressIVE Rehabilitation Award
The Progressive Rehabilitation Award recognizes the ongoing efforts of individual operators to progressively rehabilitate their sites in accordance with their site plans.
CBM Aggregates - A Division of Votorantim Cimentos
MIDDLESEX COUNTY Township
WIDESPREAD EFFORTS
This rehabilitation took place over 11.9 hectares of land between November 2018 and April 2019. Over 20,000 cubic metres of overburden material was imported. That material was shaped and contoured by a CAT D7 dozer to blend with the boundary of the nearby Olalondo Pit, and 20,000 cubic metres of topsoil was applied to an average minimum thickness of 250 mm.
IMPROVING QUALITY
Finally, the site was seeded with a 490kg mix comprised of alfalfa, red clover, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and timothy that was spread at a rate of 100 kg per hectare. This mix was selected to improve soil quality by increasing nitrogen and organic matter content. As of fall 2019, the rehabilitated site was in the early stages of row crop production