Remediation of Abandoned Surface Coal Mining Sites

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   • Ulrich Stottmeister, Alena Mudroch

   Pages 1-3

3. Reclamation and Regeneration of Landscapes after Brown Coal Opencast Mining in Six Different Countries

   • Ulrich Stottmeister, Alena Mudroch, Christopher Kennedy, Zdena Matiova, Jacek Sanecki, Ivan Svoboda

   Pages 4-36

4. Alternatives for the Reclamation of Surface Mined Lands

   • Christopher Kennedy

   Pages 37-56

5. Mining Lakes: Generation, Loading and Water Quality Control

   • Helmut Klapper

   Pages 57-110

6. Development Prospects for the Post-Mining Landscape in Central Germany

   • Sabine Linke, Lutz Schiffer

   Pages 111-149

7. Now We Have a Future, People Can Also Speak of the Past — Living Next to an Opencast Mine

   • Sigrun Kabisch, Sabine Linke

   Pages 150-160

8. Art Projects in Post Mining Landscapes: Visions Became Reality

   • Ulrich Stottmeister

   Pages 161-169

9. Back Matter

   Pages 170-175

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Christopher Kennedy University of Toronto, Department of Civil Engineering, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S IA4 Coal is a valuable resource. It provides a significant amount of the World's energy supply and it is the basis for many industries. However, in areas where coal lies close to the Earth's surface and has been exploited by open cast tech­ niques, radical alterations of landscape and significant impacts on the envi­ ronment have occurred. This report was prepared to provide guidance to those who are responsible for the prevention of environmental effects from surface mining and for the restoration of the mining areas. Environmental problems of surface coal mining and restoration of the mine sites are discussed in the re­ port. Particular attention is given to Eastern Europe, which continues to be a major centre of opencast lignite mining. Reclamation of mined lands for for­ estry, agriculture and wildlife is briefly discussed. However, the shear volume of coal removed from many mines in Eastern Europe is so vast, that there is often insufficient overburden material to refill the pits. Consequently, the main focus of this report is on the creation of lakes in these former surface mines. Many problems have to be overcome in creating healthy lakes for recreation or wildlife. Guidelines for treating water quality problems and further devel­ opment of lakes are provided. Techniques for dealing with acidic, waters, eutrophication and contamination are discussed.

• Abandoned opencast pits
• Beeinflussung der soziologischen Entwicklungen
• Generation of lakes
• Influence on sociologal and cultural development
• Opencast mine remediation
• Post-mining landscape
• Seebildung in Tagebaurestlöchern
• Tageba
• mining
• remediation
• terrestrial pollution
• ecotoxicology

• Dundas, Canada

  Alena Mudroch, Christopher Kennedy

• Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Alena Mudroch, Christopher Kennedy

• Department of Remediation Research, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

  Ulrich Stottmeister

• Magdeburg, Germany

  Helmut Klapper

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