Rehabilitation
Every
year, MAAP selects several abandoned gravel pits and quarries
within designated areas of Ontario to rehabilitate at no cost
to the landowner.
How Do Sites Get
Selected?
Rehabilitation
sites are selected based on a number of factors including, but
not limited to, size, potential safety risks, ease of accessibilty,
and the extent of vegetation. These criteria are important in
determining which sites are selected for rehabilitation. Once
selected properties undergo an assessment, based on the criteria
listed above, and a score and priority ranking are assigned.
MAAP attempts to rehabilitate the higher priority sites, which
it deems to be the most severe in each area, before moving on
to those, which are considered lower priorities. Often these
sites are located on privately-owned land. MAAP requires landowner
consent before any rehabilitation work can occur. The good news
is that there is no cost to the landowner for the work MAAP
performs. What
Does Rehabilitation Mean?
MAAP's
main objective when rehabilitating abandoned pits and quarries
is to make them safer, more productive and more aesthetically
appealing. Rehabilitation therefore can mean a variety of
things, from creating productive agricultural fields to creating
recreational or natural areas. The final land use must be
in keeping with the landowner's intent for the property and
should also be compatible with the surrounding land use.
Who
Does the Work?
Once the
rehabilitation plan is developed, MAAP tenders out the work
to contractors through a public tender process. From there,
all work is supervised and inspected by MAAP on a regular
basis until the job is complete.
Where
has the Work Been Done?
The
location of construction each season is determined by examining
the number of sites within a particular geographic area (MAAP
uses provincial county/municipality boundaries to delineate
geographic areas). Individual counties were prioritized according
to the number of sites they contained and rehabilitation efforts
are based on this information. To date MAAP
has completed 232 rehabilitation projects in 34 counties across
the province of Ontario.
Visit
Our Rehabilitation Scrapbook
or Click
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