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Quarry
Blasting
Quarry rock blasting in urban environments is perhaps one of the most
challenging aspects facing the aggregates industry today. Population growth
around existing quarries has brought blasting operations closer to residential
structures than ever before. Quarry operators exercise great care to operate
as a good neighbor near communities, providing buffers around property to
improve visual impact, reducing equipment noise and impacts of blasting ground
vibrations, and controlling fugitive dust.
Technical means to mitigate off-site impacts of blasting operations are available to minimize ground vibrations and air overpressure that may leave the blast site. Modern tools are available to the blaster such as electronic delay systems, profiling quarry faces to guide explosive loading and ensure proper rock movement and breakage, and seismographs strategically placed to monitor off-site ground motion energy.
Our Commitment to You
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Blasting risk management assessment and planning
Aimone-Martin
Associates, LLC are committed to helping quarry operators reduce impacts of
blasting with advanced studies to
evaluate geologic site characteristics influencing ground vibrations and providing
measurements to evaluate the rock breakage process when optimizing blasting
operations. We
can provide your operations with successful blasting risk management
planning and practices to mitigate negative perceptions about blasting within
communities surrounding quarries. Our risk management practices provide
assurance to community members that your blasting is not only designed to be
safe with but also protective of your neighbors' structures.
Our services and site-specific studies integrate vibration control and structure response instrumentation with blast design assessments. We have successfully demonstrated safe blasting practices do not damage structures in neighborhoods. Such studies have resulted in the re-permitting of existing quarries despite severe public opposition to operations for many of our clients.
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Better documentation
Our services include data base management and development of interactive blasting and vibration reports. We can align your recordkeeping and design comprehensive data bases for reporting and analysis extremely helpful for applications such as explosives inventory control and blast-related claims assessments. Claim managements systems used by our client have resulted in 100% claim-free blasting operations. We intend to keep that record.
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