Guides for Aggregate & Borrow Excavation Reclamation and Peatland Reclamation Pilot Projects in In Situ Sites

This project contains The Guide for In Situ Reclamation in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta: Reclaiming Aggregate and Borrow Excavations to Water Bodies; and Reclaiming In Situ Pads and Roads to Peatlands. These guides document current knowledge, recent research, and best practices employed in Alberta and abroad for the reclamation of aggregate and borrow excavations for In Situ facilities. They also document peatland reclamation pilot projects conducted in Alberta for the reclamation of In Situ facilities. The guides contain checklists of tasks through planning, construction, revegetation, and monitoring of a wetland reclamation project.

In Reclaiming Aggregate and Borrow Excavations to Water Bodies, they found that in a variety of wetlands, the marsh plant zone (defined as the area of the water body with less than 1m of water depth) is most critical from an ecological and biodiversity perspective. The characteristics of the marsh plant zone (width, plant diversity) are primarily driven by slope.