Environmental Success at Gallstown Quarry

摘要

Kilsaran Concrete's Gallstown Quarry is located due north of Drogheda and south-east of Dunleer in Co. Louth, not far from the Dublin-Belfast motorway. County Louth itsejf is located on the north-eastern coast of Ireland, forming part of the border with Northern Ireland. The existence of high-quality greywacke sandstone has been proven within the company's extensive landholding and planning permission has been granted for quarrying over an area of approximately 43ha. Kilsaran Concrete commenced commercial rock extraction at Gallstown in 1995 and since then routine environmental monitoring of noise and dust has been carried out on a regular basis. Likewise, every blast that has ever take place at the site has also been monitored.