Amrize seeks site plan amendment for Avening Pit

A commenting period is now open on the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) with regard to proposed changes to the site plan to facilitate an expansion to the existing 148-hectare Avening Pit, in operation since 1999.

Amrize Canada Inc. seeks to extract below the water table in a portion of the northern setback, which is adjacent to land owned by Amrize, formerly Lafarge Canada Inc.

Application has been made by Amrize Canada Inc. to amend the current site plan. The change would remove a portion of the 15-metre northern setback. This change would allow for the site to connect with the adjacent proposed below water expansion connecting the two pits into a single operation.

The proposed annual tonnage limit for the new pit, referred to as the 86.1-hectare Oster Pit, in combination with the existing pit is 450,000 tonnes. The operation will utilize existing infrastructure (entrance/ exit, haul route, drainage courses, settling pond and monitoring network).

The consultation for ERO number 025-1422 closes at 11:59 p.m. on March 31.

A public meeting was held in 2017 in advance of the property being rezoned from agriculture to extractive industrial below water.

File photo: An open house was held in Avening in 2016 to provide information about a proposed expansion to Lafarge’s Avening Pit.