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.
Lafarge Canada Inc. - A Member of LafargeHolcim
Town of Caledon
Converting to Agricultural Land
Since April 2015, the team at Lawford Pit has been in the process of converting the site’s floor pit back to agricultural land while promoting the expansion of the Credit River and Core Greenlands System. Steady progress has been made throughout the year towards these goals. In 2020, the team rehabilitated 7.2 hectares of land for a site total of 20.5 hectares of rehabilitated space.
Supporting Natural Revegetation
Recent work included redistributing onsite overburden material to slope the exhausted faces at a ratio of 3:1, as well as applying 320,000 cubic metres of overburden and topsoil over the area. The entire rehabilitated area has also been seeded to prevent erosion and to support natural revegetation over the long term. The seed mix includes creeping fescue, perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass and white clover.