 Aggregate Industries is proud of their long-standing commitment to the
environment and has recently been honored with several prestigious awards
that exemplify this commitment.
In the Northeast Region, Aggregate Industries was the recipient of the
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s Environmental Excellence Award
at the Swampscott, MA, facility. The region’s Boston plant was a previous
winner of this award. The Franktown, CO, plant in the West Central Region
has also received this award, which recognizes the operators of the
nation’s cleanest, most innovative ready mixed concrete production
facilities.
Aggregate Industries is the recipient of numerous nationwide awards |
National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association
Environmental Eagle Award |
The National Stone Association bestowed five Environmental Eagle Awards to
producing facilities in three of Aggregate Industries’ regional operations.
These awards demonstrate a commitment to the environment that reaches across all
their U.S. regional businesses. Award winners include:
- West Central Region: Morrison Quarry, Colorado, and Thornton Sand &
Gravel, Colorado
- North Central Region: Nelson Sand & Gravel, Minnesota
- Northeast Region: Wrentham Quarry, Massachusetts, and Peabody Quarry,
Massachusetts
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In Maryland, the State Department of the Environment
honored Aggregate Industries’ Mid Atlantic region with their Outstanding
Surface Mine Reclamation Award for the E.L. Gardner Sand & Gravel Plant at
Brandywine. This award recognizes the aggregate producer with the best
design and effort for returning a mine site to a productive use. A park,
complete with a pond, wildflower field, picnic pavilion, and ball park now
stand were the mine site was operated. |
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The company’s Tucson Aggregate Plant in Brighton, CO, was
awarded the Aggregate Producer of the Year Award by national industry
magazine Pit and Quarry. The award highlights an operation that displays
exemplary performance in operations, training, safety technology,
environment, and community relations.
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The South Platte River is located in Colorado. A joint
study was conducted by numerous U.S. government agencies, as well as the
Colorado Rock Products Association, of the cumulative effects of alluvial
aggregate mining and reclamation on the portion located between Chatfield
Reservoir and the confluence of the Cache La Poudre River in Weld County.
The study identified environmental effects on resources such as
vegetation, wetlands, and wildlife habitat. Post-mining landscape has
provided an open water type of wildlife habitat. A series of five ponds
provide plenty of bluegill, pumpkinseed fish, trout, catfish, and bass. |
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Photo by Donald Broeren |
Productive wetland habitat
photo by Donald Broeren
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South Platte Park during mining |
South Platte Park after reclamation |
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