Lafarge Wins EPA Award

Lafarge has announced that its Aggregates SE business unit, based in Douglasville, Ga., has been named one of four winners in the 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Performance Track award for “environmental achievements above and beyond legal requirements,” and the only winner from the Small Facility award category.

Lafarge won the EPA award for the environmental performance of its Douglasville Quarry. The quarry manufactures and sells heavy building materials, including quarry extraction of aggregates. During the 2006 period, the EPA citation noted, the Douglasville Quarry achieved the following environmental improvements:

• In 2003, the quarry set a goal to increase its land and habitat conservation by 0.22 acres. By 2006, Lafarge had created nearly three acres of improved wildlife habitat.

• Lafarge set a goal to reduce its discharge of sediment from stone processing by increasing the capacity of its retention pond to minimize discharge of waste water and by recycling the water back into the plan for reuse in processing and dust control. The result was a 96 percent reduction in sediment leaving the site.

More information is available at www.lafarge-na.com.