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We strive to approach every aspect of our business cleanly, honestly and respectfully. We deal honestly with our customers and partners, we keep our plants and trucks clean and we treat the environment and our neighbors with the utmost respect. At PÕ¾ÊÓƵ sand plants, each of our dredges runs on clean and quiet electricity instead of diesel. That means noise is kept to a minimum and fuel spills are impossible. When we find ourselves with excess concrete, instead of discarding it, weÌýÌýand use it as a construction base or as a backfill. And though we don’t do it for awards, we’ve definitelyÌý.

The materials we mine, refine and distribute are vital for communities across Oklahoma. But we only can do what we do if the public allows it. So our relationships with our neighbors are very important to us, and we do all we can to minimize the impact of our operations on the landowners and communities around us. At certain facilities, we’veÌýeliminated backup alarms on trucks and began using strobe lights for safety; also we turned bright lights away from our neighbor's homes to maintain relations. We often water down roads to keep fugitive dust under control. We minimize vibrations and disruptions from blasting in our quarries. We use electric dredges in our sand plants to keep noise down. Though we try to improve all we can, we’re always happy to hear from our neighbors about anything more we can do. Please feel free toÌý.

PÕ¾ÊÓƵ recognizes the importance of operating a sustainable company, so we strive to recycle many by-products resulting from our operations.  We regularly recycle paper and cardboard.  We also recycle electronics, such as outdated computers.  Any scrap metals, petroleum products, batteries, and oil filters are processed by recycling firms.  At our Block Plant, we purchase remanufactured pallets when possible, and we sometimes repair them ourselves, if possible.  Pallets that are not repairable are ground-up for mulch.

During the permitting phase of every quarry and sand plant, part of our job is to come up with an environmentally-friendly plan for the future of the site once mining is complete. This planning is called reclamation. Most sand plants are only active for a few decades before being returned to a landowner or community as a water supply lake, fishing pond, recreational area or park. For example, OKC’s PÕ¾ÊÓƵ Youth Park was once a sand plant. Now, it is a beautiful park that offers fishing opportunities for many in the former sand lake.Ìý This unique lake is one of the few that is stocked with trout each year.Ìý Aggregate quarries have a typically much longer lifespan – often measured in hundreds of years – but once reclaimed they can become stunningly clean and clear watershed lakes that provide much needed water to many areas of the state. Today, the site of PÕ¾ÊÓƵ’s first quarry, Big Canyon, isÌý.

If you have any ideas about how to improve our environmental impact, if you happen to notice something that doesn’t seem right or if you’re unhappy with us or our operations for any reason, we want to hear from you.Ìý.