Work to extend Midland Quarry Products’ Clee Hill quarry in Shropshire is going ahead after the creation of a new habitat for the resident great crested newts.
Water and biodiversity
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Our vision:
To be acknowledged as a business that values water as a vital natural resource and recognises the impact of its extraction sites on the local environment both during and after use.
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Objectives:
Ensure sustainable use of land, maximising the benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem services and minimising impacts on the availability of water in the natural environment.
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Action plan:
Embed the water hierarchy of ‘reduce, reuse, recover, abstract’ before using mains water; improve metering leading to better identify and repair leaks; roll out the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) water monitoring and reporting system. Establish, publish and monitor biodiversity action plans for all quarries.
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2020 targets:
Reduce mains water consumption by 25 per cent by 2020 based on 2010 baseline; reduce the sum of mains and abstracted water for concrete by 10 per cent by 2020 based on 2010 baseline.
There was a slight fall in mains water use per tonne of product but the overall water use of both mains and controlled water rose. Read more
Biodiversity and site stewardship
We have biodiversity and geodiversity action plans (BAPs and GAPs) in place for all but one of our quarries and they are all published on our website. Read more
The former Middleton Hall sand and gravel quarry on the Staffordshire/Warwickshire border has won a top European restoration award.
A former sand and gravel quarry at Manor Farm, Milton Keynes, which has been transformed into a floodplain forest nature reserve, was officially opened by celebrity farmer and BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson.