INSPIRE - Areas occupied by working quarries between 2010 and 2020 in Wallonia (BE)

This INSPIRE compliant data layer represents the influence of active careers in Wallonia in 2020.

The initial list comes from the 2010 Poty Inventory.

This layer includes for each site in operation (= active quarries) the land occupied by:
- the extraction pit: this is the area where the stone is extracted, which itself includes the working floor (bottom), bearings, face faces including the excavation of waste rock (also known as dead ground);
- operating dependencies: all the facilities present on the quarry site and which enable the stone to be transformed into a finished or semi-finished product (breaking, screening, washing, concrete plant, coating, handling, stone working, workshops, garages, product stocks, car parks, processing plant, brick-making, lime kilns, etc.);
- operating waste rock depots, settling ponds, and runways allowing the movement of machinery within the holding and direct connections to the railway or waterway, buffer or isolation zones on the periphery of the site.

It is very important to point out that this layer does not correspond to the land covered by the permits, nor to the land listed in the area of extraction dependencies or in the area of extraction in the sector plan in force. Similarly, it is important to stress that this layer does not represent only the bare soils of active quarries.

The information awarded is the Poty ID (links to other parts of the study), the name of the quarry, the materials used and the family of rocks.