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Faculty of Environmental Sciences. Monitoring of post-mining sites and their reclamation. David Vrzal Department of Landscape Ecology. vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12 th Jan 2011. Faculty of Environmental Sciences. Surface mining in Czech Republic.
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Faculty of Environmental Sciences Monitoring of post-mining sites and their reclamation David Vrzal Department of Landscape Ecology vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Surface mining in Czech Republic • start in 19th century - 0,1 mil t/year • 40’s – 90’s of 20th century state companies • since 90’s private companies • 1980 – 87 mil t/year • 2010 – 50 mil t/year vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences open-pit mine Jiří post-mining site Medard main district city 24.000 inhabitants vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences open-pit mine Jiří 2 km 4 km vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences open-pit mine Jiří vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences excavator on caterpillars conveyor belt vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Open-pit mine Jiří vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences 2nd half of 19thcentury 2002 2008 Post-mining site Medard Mining stopped 2000 Mine pumping-out stopped 2008 Proposed area 493 ha, 120 mil m3 in 2013 4 x 1,5 km depth 50 m vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences 2010 2008 Post-mining site Medard View W-E vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Different types of banks – different species, abundance vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Field research Zoobenthos sampling vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Field research Zoo-plankton filtering vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Field research Water analyzing All the year vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Laboratory research High Tech equipment vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring Results: bachelor, master, PhD thesis Scientific articles Conferences Applied research vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Medard monitoring • In cooperatin with: • private companies - Sokolovská, a.s. • state administration - Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, local authorities • universities - University of South Bohemia • NGO – ENKI, o.p.s. vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Thank you for your attention. I will be pleased to answer your questions. David Vrzal Dpt. of Landscape Ecology Náměstí Smiřických 1 281 63 Kostelec n. Č. l. Czech Republic vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011
Faculty of Environmental Sciences vrzal@knc.czu.cz 12th Jan 2011