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
Township of PUSLINCH
RestorATION Initiative
A total of 2.25 hectares of land were restored during Coburn Pit’s wetland rehabilitation project. The initiative began in October 2017 with a total of 6,000 cubic metres of overburden and 2,000 cubic metres of topsoil collected from nearby stockpiles and spread over the rehabilitation site. The land was then contoured to provide deep water, shallow water, and upland habitats.
Local Help
The site’s side slopes were seeded with a mix of tallgrass prairie, clover, and native wildflower at a rate of 26 lbs per acre. Local students were recruited to help plant over 700 trees. Finally, wetland bundles were placed around the rehabilitated land to bolster aquatic vegetation, and over-sized rock and woody debris were positioned around the shorelines. The work was completed in January 2018.