Ecological rehabilitation and long term monitoring of post mining areas
TUC team met to work on the development of an audit catalogue to evaluate and certify ecological rehabilitation of post-mining areas. In particular, the frame of the audit catalogue, its chapters with their main subjects and the way of their
The REECOL partnership takes efforts to keep the project on track. The project coordinator Poltegor-Instytut organized online meeting, on 05.11.2024. The discussion covered organizational issues, and activities and challenges within work packages WP4, WP5, WP6. Necessary plans and arragements were
On 25-27.09.2024 REECOL partners met in Chania, Greece to carry out a two-day meeting regarding the project progress. There were also partners attending online. TUC (School of Mineral Resources Engineering) was the host of the meeting. In addition to presentations
REECOL team involved in WP 5: “Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation” continues work on collecting of soil samples. They met online to plan soil sampling campaign in Greece on the Ptolemais mining site at the end of
Two REECOL teams: from Instytut Techniki Górniczej KOMAG and from Poltegor-Instytut visited Konin Brown Coal Mine. KOMAG team carried out drone flights to collect data for calculation of NDVI. NDVI, i.e. normalized differential vegetation index – is used to determine the
Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem is another university with which VUHU shared the REECOL project ideas.
VUHU shares the REECOL ideas (rehabilitation methodologies and approaches etc.) with universities. A great occasion for this was an excursion of Czech and foreign students of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague at the Mostecká basin, guided by
After the droneflights over mining heaps – in Bytom and Gliwice, the REECOL team in KOMAG discussed the suitability of the recorded locations for the further project activities, i.e. landrehabilitation with use of technology and solutions developed in the project.
KOMAG continues their work with drone flights to be ready for monitoring of rehabilitation of postmining lands with use of the technologies and solutions developed in the REECOL project. This time the flights were carried out over two locations –
One of the REECOL project objectives is development of a technology for soil regeneration using composts of high biological activity. A unique compost mixture of lignite, solid organic waste, and selected highly active microorganisms is to be used to restore