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
Township of ChamplaiN
Preparation
Newton Pit is located five kilometres southeast from the town of Vankleek Hill where it has been operated by Lafarge Canada Inc. since 2002. Recently, Newton Pit crews rehabilitated 6.7 hectares of the pit’s 8.5-hectare operating site with the goal of preparing the property for licence surrender. Notably, the pit is situated within a glacial outwash deposit which has reached nine metres above the water table.
Successful GRowth
This required crews to slope the pit’s face. To that end, excavators and dozers were used to shape existing material over the rehabilitation area in 2018, after which the slopes and former pit floor were left to naturally regenerate with native and natural ground cover and grasses. Since the project’s completion, the area has successfully grown into a native meadow.