West Central Region wins Colorado's Sustainability
Champion Award
Aggregate Industries’ West Central Region has
won the State of Colorado’s Sustainability Champion Award for
reservoir projects at the Morrison Quarry and the Thornton /
Hazeltine sand and gravel site. This is the first year for the
Sustainability Champion Award, which was presented by the Governor
of Colorado and the Executive Director for the Colorado Department
of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE).
At the Morrison Quarry water reservoirs
reclamation project, Aggregate Industries employees teamed with the
Town of Morrison to provide the first mined rock quarry utilized
for water storage in the Denver-Metro area. The quarry
provides a 500 acre-foot (163,000 million gallons), 150 foot deep
reservoir (Reservoir #1) which covers less than 7 acres. A
second reservoir is planned for the Town of Morrison, in the
current mining area which will provide and additional 1,000 acre
feet of water storage and is expected to be completed in
2010.
Allen Williams, Mayor of Morrison said,
“Sustainability for the Town of Morrison is essential and our
partnership with Aggregate Industries has virtually guaranteed the
survival and the future of the Town of Morrison.”
The second award winning reservoir project is
the Cooley Reservoir and Fulton Wildlife Area sand and gravel mine
and processing plant. The end use reclamation of this site
includes three water reservoirs for the Cities of Thornton and
Arvada. Reclamation included installing a “slurry wall”
(specialized mixture of clay and water) trenched to bedrock to
provide a water tight storage vessel. These reservoirs will
provide a total of 8,000 acre feet (2.6 billion gallons) of water
to the community.
“Our entire team of employees in the West
Central Region has long been committed to the issue of
sustainability and we have been working on these water reservoir
projects for many years, even before ‘Sustainability’ became a buzz
word,” said Regional President Pat Ward. “Receiving this award
recognizes the value of our commitment to these local communities,
and I am very proud of our team’s efforts.”