Brett Aggregates Delivers For Power Station Restoration

Over six months, the team at Brett Aggregates’ Lydd Quarry delivered over 25,000 tonnes of material - enough to fill four Olympic sized swimming pools - to backfill an empty basement of a nuclear turbine hall at the decommissioned Dungeness A Nuclear Power Station in Kent.

In its operational days, the turbine hall stood 26 metres high and housed four turbogenerators that supplied electricity to the national grid for over 40 years. Since its closure in 2006, the site has been undergoing decommissioning and restoration.

Large scale restoration projects like these call for careful site planning and coordination, as Darren Knight, Operations Manager for Kent at Brett Aggregates, explains: “To accommodate the restoration works we created a separate loading and storage area, and built a new road through the Lydd site. We also had a team who were dedicated to the Dungeness project to ensure regular supplies to other customers continued without disruption.”

The Brett Aggregates team also worked closely with the site to plan deliveries as Robert Hope, Transport Manager at Brett Aggregates, adds: “Working closely with the site team, we planned for 30 loads per day to be delivered as efficiently as possible by using our largest arctic trucks. This allowed us to deliver more material each day using fewer vehicles.”

Darren commented: “Paul Prebble, who supervises our Lydd site, everyone an excellent job in preparing and delivering for this restoration project, it was a great effort by everyone involved.”

Now completed, the project has restored part of the local landscape while plans are made for the site’s future.