Roanoke Cement Validates Green Credentials

摘要

The Natural Resources Conservation Service recently hosted a tour of the Roanoke Cement, Troutville, Va., farm conservation project. Bill Keith, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, said he hoped farmers would see how alternative water sources can provide a cleaner source of water for livestock and also improve creek habitat. The Roanoke Cement plant has won a host of awards in recent years tied to efforts to reduce the site's environmental impact. When Roanoke needed to expand its limestone quarry, the company pledged to make changes to land it owned nearby that is leased to a farmer. Among other things, the work was designed to improve the water qual- ity of Catawba Creek, a tributary tc the James River and, ultimately, tht Chesapeake Bay.