Statutory Planning

The plans have included waste disposal sites, sites for burying and digging waste, compost sites, particularly mining and quarrying sites. The plans are submitted to the planning institutions and accompanied by the team for their approval. Over the years we have accumulated extensive experience including a broad interdisciplinary design team within the company as well as externally.

The a review of the influence on the environment is required for many of these plans. This review is done by the environment department of the company and its conclusions are implemented in the plans prepared by the planning team.

As part of the plans for mining and quarrying we performed engineering designs for mining and quarrying jobs. Planning is based on geological data obtained from the Department of Geology. This information is translated into three-dimensional surfaces using AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D software, working together with the Department of Geological and Environmental. Three-dimensional design allows editing of models for calculating quantities, an analysis of the area in terms of depth of quarrying and existing or planned slopes.

Selected projects:
The new plan for mining phosphate in the Oron - Tsin – a wide-ranging plan is under preparation. The desire to ensure the continued production of phosphate reserves in the mining sites Oron and Zin; and also consider the overall sensitivity of the area in terms of natural values, landscape and heritage. It became necessary to prepare a new master plan for phosphate mining in this area. Preparation of the plan is accompanied by a steering committee chaired by a representative of the District Planning Office and includes representatives of green organizations and representatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ministry of Trade and Industry, IAA, local councils and others. The committee examines the mining conflicts between conservation and tries to create a balance between the two activities.
The program documents also include mining and rehabilitation plans and landscape-environmental documents in some of the fields. These documents are written by a landscape architecture team in collaboration with the Ministry's planning team. Mining and rehabilitation programs show the phases of the planned mining area and the treatment of the area done during the mining. The overburden - the material removed during mining and that cannot be used - is transported to the areas where the mining takes place and is used to treat the surface in a way that allows it to be rehabilitated and merge with its surroundings.

Nesher Quarry expansion plan in Ramla - the design team conducts a plan for the Ramla Nesher quarry, including a detailed plan, a plan that changes the regional master plan and national master plan. The program aims to enable the expansion of the quarry areas, which provide the raw materials of cement plant (Portland cement). It is anticipated that there will be a limestone cement shortage in the immediate future. Therefore, a National Master Plan is being prepared to ensure the long-term raw material reserves by Nesher Ramla. Various departments of the company - planning, geology and environment - take part in the preparation of the plan. The plan is accompanied by a committee of editors, managed by the Planning Administration, Ministry of Interior.

Driver training area and landfill rehabilitation - Rishon Lezion - a program that involves rehabilitation of a landfill site in old Rishon Lezion West; and the establishment of public service training plot. The site was used early on as a gravel and sand quarry. At the end of the burial, pit mining was used as the city's household waste area. Upon completion of landfill operations and waste coverage, a field survey was carried out on the site with a view to future restoration (by Geo-prospect Ltd). The program has integrated two important goals: 1. rehabilitating the municipal landfill which operated from 1988 until early 2003, when it was closed by the Ministry of Environment.  A mix of household waste, industrial and commercial, trimmings and construction waste was burried in this site. 2. According to a municipal plan, the area will be turned into a field for driver training. This will be done according to the transportation regulations.

While submitting the rehabilitation plan, an environmental opinion of the plan, prepared by Geo-Prospect Ltd. and Afik Engineering Ltd. was also submitted. In the opinion report, the rehabilitation plan for the landfill site and the building of the training venter were reviewed. The environmental influences due to the rehabilitation were analysed as well as the ways in which they can be minimized.

Excess dirt burial site in Nahal Og - a plan for the excess waste burial and domestic and infrastructure construction waste treatment site in the Jerusalem area. There is no official excess dirt and construction waste treatment site within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem today. The entrepreneurs and contractors must transport the waste to distant waste treatment sites. This constraint is one of the main reasons for unlawful disposal of excess dirt and construction waste in the city, which harms the open areas and their appearances, and forces the city authority to pay for their removal. The closure of the Abu Dis site, expected in the coming years, will make it even harder to dispose of excess dirt. Dumping large amounts of excess dirt and construction waste in open spaces throughout the city in general and the East in particular, is now the most serious environmental problem in Jerusalem. This phenomenon has become more widespread in recent years, due to the absence of an accessible disposal site and given the construction boom in the city. Therefore there is an acute need for the establishment of a regulated and legal site for the  burial of excess dirt and waste treatment from construction.  A site at the top of the Og stream was found to be suitable as a landfill for excess dirt for the city. After completing sequestering the excess dirt, a park will be developed for public use over the landfill site. Development of the park will be done in stages, upon finishing the filling of the landfill cells.

The "Ef'e" landfill - the Ef'e waste disposal site is an existing site in the Rotem area. The planning team has conducted two plans for this site:

1. NOP 16/E/1 - an asbestos burial site - a plan to receive and bury asbestos waste. In Israel, the amount of asbestos waste is estimated at dozens of millions of cubic meters of asbestos-cement and about 300,000 tons of brittle asbestos. The solution for the asbestos waste is burial in a regulated facility to avoid hazards to the public and to the environment. When reviewing alternatives, the Ef'e site was found suitable for receiving this type of waste and there fore, a plan for this purpose was made.

2. NOP 16/E/2 - a plan enabling the treatment of this waste by using a biological cell for treating soils contaminated by various contaminants, as well as different cells for treating biologically degradable waste (compost). The plan is compatible with the Environment Protection Ministry's wish to create appropriate cells in approved waste disposal sites that would reduce waste volumes, treatment and recycling of various waste types and burying the un-recyclable waste.

Plans for mines and quarries - detailed plans as well as work plans have been prepared by the company for many quarries in Israel. The plans are made according to the instructions in NOP 14 for Mines and Quarries and include all required appendices - quarrying stages, area treatment, infrastructure etc. In each site, the planning is done according to the eological information, needs, environmental conditions and various limitations in regard to infrastructure, area purposing, etc.

Compost site plans - plans in the southern area of Israel that re-purpose agricultural areas into regulated treatment areas for agricultural waste and transforming it into compost. This is done as a part of improving the soil quality in the area.