Miller Paving Limited OSSGA Property Enhancement Award Submission – Gold Bars Gold Bar – Environmental Controls Carden Quarry Pt. Lots 10 & 11 Conc. 3, Lots 8-10, Pt. Lots 11&12 Conc. 2, Carden Township, City of Kawartha Lakes, Victoria County 356 Miller Road, PO Box 270 Brechin, ON L0K 1B0 SITE MANAGER: Robert Lindsay WRITTEN BY: Kayla Donaldson,
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[email protected] October 31, 2016 Carden Quarry Background Carden Quarry is one of the largest operations within Miller’s Southern Ontario Aggregate Resources Group (SOARG), located northeast of the small town of Brechin, on the eastern shore of Lake Simcoe. Opened by Repac, the 332.1-hectare site has been operated by The Miller Group since September 1984. Formations in the Lake Simcoe region are middle Ordovician and were probably deposited in a supratidal to intertidal intracontinental shelf environment. Carden Quarry is situated within this region in a physiographic area known as the Carden Plain. The uppermost bedrock is limestone of the Bobcaygeon Formation, beneath which is limestone of the Gull River Formation. These deposits are extracted at Carden and manufactured into numerous high-grade limestone products for concrete and asphalt as well as granular road grade. With a permanent processing plant in place, including a wash and an asphalt plant, Carden provides materials internally for Miller’s asphalt and concrete operations, as well as many external projects. External work includes such projects as this year’s Boundary Road reconstruction, only a few kilometers beyond the quarry gates, to further afield work including major extension projects on both of Highways 404 and 407.