What happens to gravel pits after mining?

We're taking an overview look at how we restore landscapes after mining activities are done. This gravel site has served the local area for decades but is nearing the end of its mining lifecycle. rather than leave the site open, we are working closely with the mine owner to restore exhausted areas of the mine by sloping them to an even grade so reforestation can take place. over the next few years, nature will take its course and the existing trees and grasses will begin to repopulate the mined landscape, and it will eventually appears as if mining never occurred.
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One principle we always stress to both clients and the public, is how mining activities are an interim use for a landscape. By utilizing proper mine planning, companies like ours can restore landscapes after mining into a variety of uses. weather that be residential development, waterscapes, or just natural forest and grassland restoration.
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[@JV-ds9ps]

It is much easier to work through the challenges of opening new mine sites when you have proof and pictures of successful mine reclamations. Typically these permit decision makers only deal with complaints and opposition from the property neighbors so it is refreshing when reputable operations are ethical and restore the land back to nature. It costs a ton of money but it's the right thing to do. Thanks for the videos!

[@wdscepaniak]

We appreciate the kind words! We want to show more of these projects to change the presumptions people have about mining.

[@peterstockschlaeder956]

@@wdscepaniak they have those perceptions -- accurately i think -- because it's only within the past 50-75 years or so that a much greater emphasis has been put on regulations for reclamation of mined lands and, just in general, being good stewards of the land. Really until this particular timeframe did pretty much everyone play fast-and-loose with reclamation, if they did it at all. We're all paying for the stupidity of the prior 100-150 years of culm piles, abandoned quarries, acid mine drainage, abandoned mines, orphan oil and gas wells, hydraulic mining for gold in Alaska and California....the list goes on. Appreciate that your are paying attention to you responsibility to do this, frankly it would also do a lot of good for the various efforts at the state and federal level if you and your business colleagues were far more vocal about doing so and putting the effort into prevent the issues collectively seen in this regard.

[@wdscepaniak]

@@peterstockschlaeder956 agreee. Trying to fix the narrative around reclamation

[@peterstockschlaeder956]

@@wdscepaniak thank you sir, keep pushing the narrative against all the folks that don't (like those crackpots on all them "Gold Rush" shows).