PondSizer software

PondSizer is a software application for calculating the optimum size of attenuation ponds, settlement lagoons and sumps designed to ensure surface water discharges comply with regulatory requirements.

GWP Consultants has used PondSizer successfully for some time in designing ponds and lagoons for controlling surface water runoff from quarries, storage mounds, landfill caps, roads and other developments.

PondSizer is now freely available for download in two versions that are compatible with the two versions of the FEH CD-ROM. Please ensure that you download the appropriate version. To read more about PondSizer CLICK HERE.

PondSizer for FEH v1:                        PondSizer for FEH v2:
         

ALSF Sustainable Aggregates: A Review of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Research Projects

Living within environmental limits is essential for any economic activity. Since its launch in 2002 the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) has made a significant contribution to knowledge and practice in how to produce aggregates in a sustainable way. It has invested nearly £40m in over 360 research and development projects covering an enormous range of topics.

The Sustainable Aggregates series of benchmark reports has been developed to reflect the latest information and good practice from ALSF or other recent work to make them easily accessible to those who can apply them in practice.

This summary report summarises the key findings of the reports and provides a sign-post to further information in the reviews.

To find out more about this report or download a copy, please visit the ALSF Sustainable Aggregates website at http://www.sustainableaggregates.com/rprts_revs/rr_summaryreport.htm.

Overview Report

An overview of design and management approaches to reducing the environmental footprint of the supply chain for land-won aggregates

The overview report draws on the information in the twelve reports which have been produced as part of the thematic review of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) research projects for land-won minerals. It puts them into the context of the quarry life-cycle, specifically in relation to the various elements of environmental footprint and the stages in the supply chain for land-won aggregates. In particular, the report helps to emphasise some of the major findings of the ALSF research and describes some of the complex inter-relationships between environmental footprints at different stages of a quarry’s life.

The overview report builds on the concept of environmental footprint and, drawing on the twelve themes, shows how the design and management of the quarry has a key role to play in determining the overall balance of negative and positive environmental effects.

To find out more about this report or download a copy, please visit the ALSF Sustainable Aggregates website at http://www.sustainableaggregates.com/rprts_revs/rr_overviewreport.htm

ALSF Overview Report Bibliographic Database

The ALSF Sustainable Aggregates overview report draws on information in thematic reviews of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) research projects for land-won minerals.

The report emphasises the major findings of the ALSF research programme and describes some of the complex inter-relationships between environmental footprints at different stages of a quarry’s life.

The Downloadable database (for MSAccess versions 97 and 2003) is a searchgable biobliography of the theme reviews and their reference lists.

To view the ALSF Sustainable Aggregates Overview Report, go to http://www.sustainableaggregates.com/topics/topics_overviewreport.htm.

A Quarry Design Handbook (pre-publication draft)

A project funded from the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) and managed by the Mineral Industry Research Organisation (MIRO). Research and writing carried out by GWP Consultants LLP and David Jarvis Associates Ltd.

The Handbook is about the design of new quarries, quarry extensions or revised quarry working schemes. The primary objectives of good quarry design are the safe, efficient and profitable extraction of the maximum usable material from the available land whilst causing the minimum environmental disturbance and resulting in beneficial final restoration and land-uses. The Handbook sets out to provide a source of reference and guidance to those involved in designing and operating quarries. In particular, it should assist them in preparing good quality mineral planning applications for new and extension sites, which also incorporate the requirements of the Quarries Regulations, 1999 and demonstrate effective mitigation of environmental impacts.

To read more about the Quarry Design Handbook, CLICK HERE

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Secure and Sustainable Final Slopes for SME Aggregate Quarries     ISBN 0897766882

A handbook prepared for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Mineral Industry Research Organisation by the Geoffrey Walton Practice* and David Jarvis Associates.

This handbook deals with the need for, and methods of obtaining, secure and sustainable final slopes in quarries. It aims to provide an accessible source of information and technical advice and, whilst written particularly for small and medium sized operating firms (who are less likely to have in-house geotechnical and landscape personnel) it is generally applicable to any aggregate operation, whatever its size...to read more CLICK HERE

*  The Geoffrey Walton Practice is a former name of GWP Consultants LLP.