2021 Community Relations Award
The Community Relations Award recognizes those who have demonstrated leadership in promoting good neighbour relations, community involvement, education and industry awareness.
Walker Aggregates Inc.
Town of Duntroon
Monitoring, Mitigation and Extensive efforts
This is Duntroon Quarry’s eleventh Community Relations Award, which recognizes the site’s efforts to mitigate the impacts of its operations. Those efforts include extensive noise and blast monitoring, using covers on equipment and transfer points to reduce dust, watering roads and stockpiles to limit dust generation, and employing a retired police officer to oversee on-site traffic.
Community outreach and donation
The quarry was also spotlighted for its community outreach. In 2021 it donated more than 650 tonnes of stone and screening to the Highlands Nordic Cross Country Ski Centre for a biathlon range, as well as stone for projects at the Great Northern Exhibition (Collingwood Agricultural Society) and the Love of Brian Farm Sanctuary in Meaford. Additionally, Duntroon Quarry sponsored the OHA Stayner Siskins Junior C Hockey Club, and Walker Aggregates made a sizable cash donation to the Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundation. These activities and more are communicated via a biannual newsletter and the Walker Aggregates website.