| Title: |
A Review of Saline Mine Waters in the Silesian Region and Methods for Managing them
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> report
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2004 |
| Availability: |
1st IMAGE-TRAIN Case Study, 2002, A Review of Saline Mine Waters in the
Silesian Region and Methods for
Managing them
http://www.image-train.net/products/CS1_Saline_Mine_Waters.pdf
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| Author 1/Producer: |
1st IMAGE-TRAIN Case Study
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Contaminants-->Others
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
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| Long description: |
Mine water management is significant in many of the active and abandoned mining
districts of Europe. Problems with metal-rich waters are the most widespread, and have
consequently been studied most in terms of the development of sustainable, long-term
solutions to such problems. In some of the major coalfields of Europe, however, saline
mine waters are even more problematic. It is not unusual for these mine waters to have
salinities five times as great as that of the Atlantic Ocean, which clearly makes their
disposal in inland freshwater rivers a problem unless desalination is implemented. The
following review, which focuses in particular on the Silesian coal basins, will address the
impacts that saline mine waters are having on freshwater ecosystems and water resources
and look at the most cost-effective desalination strategies, including measures which can
be taken to minimise the production of saline mine waters from the mines. The review
also includes case studies from Spain and Germany, which show the problems they are
facing with saline mine water and how the situation is not confined to Poland.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 18/10/2006
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