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environment

Maroota holds a sand deposit in excess of 100 million tonnes. Dixons Maroota quarry is located in an area scheduled under the Sydney Regional Environmental Plan (SREP) no. 9, Extractive Industries (link). It has been declared to be of State Significant Development under the Environmental Planning and Assessment act 1979. The site is also located within the Hawkesbury River corridor and so takes into account the requirements of SREP no. 20 (link).

Local Biodiversity

Maroota is an environmentally extraordinary area, being home to an extremely high level of biological diversity, and unique underground springs that feed the Maroota forest spanning 40,000 hectares. The range of local plant communities in Maroota include:

Sydney sandstone gully forest
Maroota sands swamp forest
Freshwater wetlands
Wet heath & fernland / sedgeland
Maroota sandmass forest
Maroota sands transition scrub
Sydney sandstone ridgetop
Low open woodland
Coastal sandstone heath / open scrub

These unique environmental characteristics drive Dixon Sand to strive for best environmental management, that appreciates the importance of evolving scientific knowledge as well as community expectations.

OLD NORTHERN ROAD QUARRY (DA250-09-01 MOD 5) Management plan

EMS Main Text (pdf)

EMS Appendix 1 - Plan Preparation Checklist (pdf)

EMS Appendix 2 - DA 250-09-01 Consent Conditions (pdf)

EMS Appendix 3 - EPL 3916 Conditions (pdf)

EMS Appendix 4 - Environmental Monitoring Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 5 - PIRMP (pdf)

EMS Appendix 6 - Noise Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 7 - Air Quality Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 8 - Soil and Water Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 10 - Biodiversity and Rehabilitation Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 11 - Community Relations Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 12 - Site Condition Checklist (pdf)

EMS Appendix 13 - Complaints Register Form (pdf)

Bushfire Management Plan Part 1 (pdf)

Bushfire Management Plan Part 2 (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry (DA 165-7-2005) Management Plans

Environmental Management Strategy (EMS) (pdf)

EMS Appendix 1 - Plan Preparation Checklist and Certification (pdf)

EMS Appendix 2 - DA 165-7-2005 Consolidated Consent (pdf)

EMS Appendix 3 - Environmental Protection Licence 12513 and EPBC 2015/7608 (pdf)

EMS Appendix 4 - Pollution Incident Response Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 5 - Environment Monitoring Locations (pdf)

EMS Appendix 6 - Air Quality Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 7 - Noise Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 8 - Soil and Water Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 9 - Traffic Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 10 - Biodiversity and Rehabilitation Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 11 - Acoustic Bund Construction Noise Management Plan (pdf)

EMS Appendix 12 - Site Condition Checklist (pdf)

EMS Appendix 13 - Complaints Register Form (pdf)

EMS Appendix 14 - Site Induction for Drivers (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry Annual Review 2021-2022 (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry Annual Review 2021-2022 (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry Annual Review 2020-2021 (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry Annual Review 2020-2021 (pdf)

Old Northern Road Annual Review 2019-20 Main Text and Appendices A to G (pdf)

Old Northern Road Annual Review 2019-20 Appendices H to M (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry Annual Review 2019 - 2020 (Addendum) (pdf)

Haerses Road Annual Review 2019-20 Main Text and Appendices A to F (pdf)

Haerses Road Annual Review 2019-20 Appendices G to N (pdf)

Annual Review 2018 - 2019 Part 1 (Main Text, Appendices A-E) (pdf)

Annual Review 2018 - 2019 Part 2 (Appendices F-G) (pdf)

Annual Review 2018 - 2019 Part 3 (Appendices H-M) (pdf)

Independent Environmental Audits

Old Northern Road Quarry - IEA 2022 Report (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry - IEA 2022 Dixon Sand's Response and Proposed Actions (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry - IEA 2022 Report (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry - IEA 2022 Dixon Sand's Response and Proposed Actions (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry - Independent Environmental Audit 2019 Report Appendices (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry - Independent Environmental Audit 2019 Report (pdf)

Old Northern Road Quarry - IEA 2019 Dixon Sand's Response and Proposed Actions (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry - Independent Environmental Audit 2019 Report (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry - Independent Environmental Audit 2019 Report Appendices (pdf)

Haerses Road Quarry - IEA 2019 Dixon Sand's Response and Proposed Actions (pdf)

Old Northern Road 2016 Independent Environmental Audit Report (pdf)

Haerses Road 2016 Independent Environmental Audit Report (pdf)

Dixon Sands Response to Independent Environmental Audit - May 2016 (pdf)