RECLAMATION SUCCESS

Golf Courses Spring from 
Reclaimed Mines


Successful environmental reclamation examples from the sand, gravel and crushed stone industries.  Former quarries and mined pits have been reclaimed and are now offering a wide variety of diverse land uses. Beautiful golf courses have been constructed from rugged quarry land.
  


Black Diamond Golf Course and retirement community in Florida. The dramatic character of this course exists because of the stark contrast between the manicured fairways and greens, and the rugged nature of the limestone quarry.


Entrance to The Quarry Golf Course in Texas, surrounded by residential development.


A fairway at the bottom of the quarry in The Quarry Golf Course.


Quarry walls and lake provide distinct landscape for the Black Diamond Golf Course.

 


A mined-out sand and gravel pit in Indiana before reclamation as the Rock Hollow Golf Course.


After reclamation, the fairways at the Rock Hollow Golf Course take advantage of mined land formations.


The Rock Hollow Golf Course enjoys wetlands along the fairways which are reclaimed low areas.


A sand pit in North Carolina before reclamation as a golf course.


The sand pit form is integrated into fairways at the Tobacco Road Golf Club, NC.


Bay Harbor is located along the shores of Lake Michigan and features a 27-hole golf course and housing built around a clay pit. The site was formerly a major cement manufacturer.


Bay Harbor contains several thousand acres of woodlands and wetlands, 
a clay pit, a kiln dust pile and a stone quarry. View of Bay Harbor from the kiln dust pile.


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