Sourcing Subsoil / Constructions waste / Topsoil Fill

It requires planning permission TMK.

Well well worth engaging with someone like MKO in Galway. Basically, all construction waste has to be disposed of in Permitted Licensed Tips. Hauliers are to lodge their returns as part of their waste license issued by the NWCPO. The ability to fly tip now is getting harder and harder. There is a shortage of tips. You can read up more on it on the EPA website but it’s not too difficult to obtain a COR licence which from memory limits you to 10k tonne in in the year once you satisfy a few conditions. Long story short, for a quarry that size you’d have a few options. You could charge by the load coming in the gate (some places charging up to 120 a load) or you could do a deal with a Civil/Earthworks Contractor or Haulier where they take it on for say five years and fill it for you. As I said, chat to someone like MKO an for not mad money they’ll carry out a feasibility study an suss out what’s a runner or not

N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramogue road scheme in Co. Ros. Contract signed with Wills Brothers in Dec 2023. In a situation like that if there was excess material on site. A contractor could look after the planning permission and the fill works itself. Closer to the Road scheme the better for the contractor, less haulage, less costs etc.

Are you sure the sand pit/quarry is actually empty? If there are any deposits left some company may be interested in it. Big shortages of quarry products coming down the tracks as it’s almost impossible to open a quarry nowadays.

If you go the filling route - the simplest solution it to contact some companies that do soil/ construction waste disposal. If you get someone interested they’d do all the paperwork required for opening the tip (both PP and a licence are required) and the day to day paperwork too.

You should get something out of it money wise too. No harm in asking anyway. Even if it was modest at €1/ton or €20/load. You'd need someway to verify the tonnage or loads unless you live by the site an can see entry/exit.

Are you sure the sandpit is empty? You should be 100% sure of that. If it's not, you can charge someone for taking the remaining sand out while also charge for the filling coming in.

I always wondered what they did on the really deep boggy spots of them roads

Ya the tar is a big no no alright I'm told

Alright till it’s noticed on load counts and things like that, most contractors now have to draw it to specialist recycling and receive paperwork per load. if it’s plainings might get away alright as it’s considered recycled but big lumps of tar considered hazardous. Madness really

I rang a lad who was organising loads for lads at 100, he started charging 150 to a lot and tried me for 200 as he thought I was stuck. He has rang me four or five times to see if I needed any recently but I just told him I wasn’t interested . It was a better job to get clean stone.

Is all the stone depleted