Publication: Rehabilitation - planning and implementation of revegetation at imerys mineral (M) Sdn Bhd
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2009-05-01
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Raja Ismail@Raja Daud, Raja Azwan
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This research discussed about the rehabilitation project at quarry base on the revegetation method of suitable plant on the surface of the quarry that had been mined by doing a research on the suitability of the soil content and type of vegetation. The types of vegetation that was chosen are based on chemical and physical component analysis of soil sample from the quarry including their pH value. Three main component of research that had been done were determination of relationship between soil characteristic and their vegetation succession, improving the revegetation succession on limestone quarry, and revegetation strategy to restore the quarry ecosystem to the natural stage where at this phase, a few suggestion on revegetation planning was given. Revegetation planning had been suggested based on main area of the quarry which consists of access road and quarry entrance, low-elevated land-flat area, haul road and high-elevated land-quarry area. References were done to the initial revegetation plan program with addition of a few improvements such as scientific information to give the quarry management a few choices in addition of the technique and type of vegetation for revegetation in the future. This research also suggested more detail technique in doing the revegetation at quarry, such as development of seed mixes, dry seeding, wet broadcast seeding, hydro seeding, and timing, instead of the initial technique that has been implemented at the quarry currently.