Roanoke Cement Company

About the Program
Roanoke Cement Company is a Titan America, LLC, subsidiary company located in Roanoke, Virginia. The cement-operating facility exemplifies environmental stewardship by encouraging facilities and organizations to go above and beyond the regulatory requirements to set strong environmental benchmarks in the industry. Furthermore, the site actively manages its land for wildlife habitat while providing opportunities for employees and community members to exercise environmental stewardship through annual clean-up events. The site also planted 17,000 trees and installed a mitigation project by erecting cattle exclusion fencing to monitor growth after the first growing season, and contains several water bodies and a landscaped pollinator habitat. 

Practices and Impacts

• Since 2006, team members engage in the Catawba Creek Clean-Up community education project. The project reaches 20 learners annually and educates local members on water quality and the importance that Catawba Creek serves to the community. The site exceeds regulatory requirements by monitoring beyond the requirements of the permit, and an annual report is released containing the local beneficial impacts of the event. 
• The 96-acre wetland site planted >50% native species along two miles of the Catawba Creek to preserve and enhance wildlife in the wetland habitat. The Catawba Creek habitat is a mitigation project and aims to monitor and improve water quality of Chesapeake Bay watershed during a quarry expansion by conducting regular macro-invertebrate surveys, and water and soil quality testing.
• The team initiated a trout pond restoration project in 2009 on 55 acres of wetland habitat where >50% native species were installed on-site to restore wildlife populations in an out-of-commission quarry mine. An audit of the pond was completed in May 2020, identifying recommended maintenance activities.