This abandoned pit is located within the Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Area. The site posed safety concerns with its steep slopes located in rolling topography. To restore the [...]
The MAAP program always asks if rehabilitation would do more harm than good before we put equipment on a legacy site. Sometimes we make tough decisions that take down mature vegetation, but only [...]
This pit was small in size but had a large pit face that needed to be graded to put this legacy pit back into workable agriculture land. The farmer had chosen to not crop the land the first [...]
The pit was located in the front of the landowner’s home and occupying agriculture land. Steep faces and hummocky terrain made data collection difficult at this site. As a result MAAP [...]
Large mounds and steep slopes occupied 0.75 ha of the landowner’s pastureland. MAAP was able to remove the mounds and create a gentle 5:1 slope which was seeded with a pasture mix. Link
This gravel pit was occupying about 0.1ha of pasture with a very steep face that rendered the pit area unusable for the horses. The site was seeded with a pasture mix after construction allowing [...]
Over 4 ha of the farmers field was not productive due to the legacy pit. In 2013 MAAP rehabilitated the site back to agricultural land. In 2014 the farmer planted soybean to till back into the [...]
This legacy pit was occupying over 1 ha of farmland. MAAP used onsite material to blend the pit into the surrounding farm field. The farmer was incredibly happy to have the extra room for crops [...]
