ISBN: 354042539x
TITEL: Remediation of Abandones Surface Coal Mining Sites
AUTHOR: Murdoch et al. (Eds.)
TOC:

Introduction (Stottmeister U, Mudroch A) 1
Reclamation and Regeneration of Landscapes after Brown Coal Opencast Mining in Six Different Counties (Bottmeister U, Mudroch A, Kennedy C, Matiova Z, Sanecki J, Svoboda I) 4
1 Problems Resulting from Lignite Mining in Eastern Germany 4
2 Reclaiming the Great Surface Coal Mines of the Czech Republic 7
3 Environmental Impacts of Surface Coal and Mineral Mining in the Slovak Republic 12
4 The Mining Lakes of Western Poland 19
4.1 Current Areas of Exploitation 19
4.2 Areas of Abandoned Exploitation 19
4.3 Hydrochemical Characteristics 20
4.4 Hydrobiological Characterization 21
5 Development of Lakes in Alberta, Canada 22
5.1 Construction of the Lakes 26
5.2 Results of Lake Studies 29
5.3 Costs of Lake Developments 31
5.4 Management of the Lakes 32
6 Overview of Opencast Coal Mining and Reclamation in the UK 32
Alternatives for the Reclamation of Surface Mined Lands (Kennedy C) 37
1 Climate 37
2 Soil Reconstruction 38
3 Forestry 42
4 Agriculture 47
4.1 Pasture 47
4.2 Cropland 48
4.3 Rangeland 50
5 Wildlife 51
Mining Lakes: Generation, Loading and Water Quality Control (Klapper H) 57
1 Hydrography and Geology in Relation to Water Quality 57
2 Water Origin: Quantity and Quality of Ground and Surface Waters 61
3 Living Conditions in Mining Lakes 67
3.1 The Chemical Environment 67
3.2 Habitat for Plants and Animals 70
4 Succession of Water Quality 72
5 Sediments and their Role for the Abatement of Acidification 76
6 End Use/Costs 80
7 Acid Mining Lakes 83
7.1 Do you Need to Treat? 83
7.2 Methods of Curbing Acidity During Lake Formation 85
7.3 In-situ Neutralization of Mining Lakes 87
7.4 Ex-situ Treatment of Mining Lakes 90
8 Eutrophication 93
8.1 When to Treat? 93
8.2 Prophylactic and Dietary Measures Against Eutrophication During Lake Formation 94
8.3 In-lake Measures Against Eutrophication 97
9 Contamination 99
9.1 Decision Criteria for Treatment 99
9.2 Approaches for In-situ Remediation and Ex-situ Treatment of Contarnination at Mining Lakes 100
Development Prospects for the Post-Mining Landscape in Central
Germany (Linke S, Schiffer L) 111
1 Introduction 111
2 The Central German Coalfield 112
2.1 A Region in tbe Grip of Transformation 112
2.2 Restoring the Water Balance 116
2.3 Potential Usage of Mine Lakes 121
2.4 Tourism - A New Economic and Integration Factor in the Region 123
2.4.1 The Ecological Dimension 124
2.4.2 The Economic Dimension 124
2.4.3 The Social Dimension 126
2.4.4 Facit 127
3 Example: Leipzig's Southern Region 128
3.1 Changing Landscape and Structure - Key Development Prospects 128
3.2 The Remediation of Water Resources 131
3.3 Usage Goals at Mine Lakes 133
3.4 Examples of Differentiated Usage of Mine Lakes for Recreation and Tourism 137
4 Summary 145
Now We Have a Future, People Can Also Speak of the Past - Living Next to an Opencast Mine (Kubisch S, Linke S) 150
1 Recalling Active Mining 150
2 Changes during Mine Recultivation 153
3 Expectations for the Mining Landscape 156
4 Regional Problem Areas 158
5 Development Chances for Mining Communities - A Summary 159
Art Projects in Post Mining Landscapes: Visions Became Reality (Stottmeister U) 161
1 Example Project: FERROPOLIS 161
1.1 Historical Background 162
1.2 FERROPOLIS: Art Object, Venue and Leisure Centre 162
1.3 Technical Description of the Machines 165
2 Example Project: Remodelled Landscape at Goitzsche near Bitterfeld 165
2.1 Historical Background 165
2.2 Remodelling of the Goitzsche Landscape 166
2.3 Description of Individual Projects
Acknowledgements 170
List of Keywords 171
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