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O&G is one of the Northeast's leading providers of construction services and products. For over 90 years, O&G has completed some of the region's most challenging projects and established ourselves as a leader in our industry.

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O&G Industries Receives Sustainability Award For "Bat Cave"

January 21, 2018

The hibernaculum was constructed in hopes of preserving a population of bats who overwinter there, while protecting them from "white-nose syndrome" - a disease that has been wiping our large populations of bats as they hibernate for the winter. According to the Department of Energy and Environment Protection (DEEP), the New Milford Quarry is currently one of the few disease-free habitat's that remains in the State.

The new habitat is a 40 foot long tunnel into limestone measuring six feet high and seven feet wide that runs into an underground chamber that is 17 feet wide, 10 feet deep and 15 feet high.

O&G's director of planning and permits Ken Faroni stated: "Although our mining operations won't reach the current habitat for another decade, we felt it was important to be proactive. The sooner we built the new habitat the sooner the bats may discover it. In fact, one bat was identified in the newly constructed hibernaculum in December 2017."

"It's a tremendous help for us and our conservation efforts for species that are declining as fast as our bats are, to have a partner like O&G step up and help" stated Jenny Dickson, Supervising Biologist for DEEP's Wildlife Division. "What O&G is doing is critically important to conservation of numerous bat species as they try to recover from the syndrome."

O&G completed project in July of 2016.

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