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Editor: Shannon Shaw , MESH Environmental Inc
Co-Editor: Laura Findlater, RGC


Rehabilitation Objectives and Measures
for Infrastructure


After: Rehabilitation of Mines Guidelines for Proponents,
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, 1995.

ISSUES REHABILITATION OBJECTIVES MEASURES
Physical Stability Issues:
Roads
Airstrips
Powerlines
Control erosion
  • remove culverts, all bridges, barricade approaches and stabilize
  • rip compact surfaces and establish vegetation
  • restore drainage patterns
Public safety
  • follow transportation regulatory authority specifications for maintenance and preventing inadvertent use
  • discharge and lock open all non-essential powerlines
Chemical Stability Issues:
Roads
Airstrips
Control releases to surface and groundwater from spills or erosion
  • contaminated soils assessed on a case-by-case basis; leave in place, or excavate, treat, dispose in approved manner
Land Use Issues:
Roads
Airstrips
Powerlines
Return to original or approved alternative use
  • transfer to new owners where appropriate
  • remove all elevated wires and poles
  • ground all buried wires

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