How To Use LimeX

Guidance on Storing
LimeX

LimeX is an agricultural liming product and is not specifically subject to the revised NVZ guidance or regulatory enforcement.  Currently, only general guidance exists for the responsible environmental management of liming products within the CoGAP 2009 (see Section 5.6 432-435 incl).

It is important to store LimeX products correctly in order to maintain friability and ensure ideal spreading characteristics. Rainfall can have a detrimental effect on the friability of site-stored LimeX products. In order to minimise the effect we recommend the following:

1. Use covered storage or alternatively minimise the surface area by creating a coned or ‘A’ shaped store.
2. Avoid leaving tipped loads as isolated heaps or where rainwater is slow to drain.
3. Be aware of any ‘fall’ on the storage area that could lead to rainwater collecting and ‘trapping’ around the product.
4. With agricultural use, when early season spreading is planned using lime spreaders, cover the stored product to minimise surface wetting by rainfall (this can compromise the spreading effectiveness of some spreading machines).
5. Select your LimeX storage site responsibly, to minimise the likelihood of environmental or nuisance issues arising.
6. The occupier of the land is responsible for agreeing the location of any temporary in-field LimeX storage.
7. We recommend that in-field storage heaps should not be located in the following way:
• within 10 metres of surface water or a land drain
• within 50 metres of a spring, well or borehole
• on land likely to become waterlogged or flooded