Expert report on geoecology

The aim of the expert reports commissioned by a public authority on approximately 20 individual objects was to clarify whether ashes placed in opencast mines for recultivation purposes and pollutants resulting from production could be detected above ground, in neighbouring lakes or in ground water, and to evaluate the situation.

• Planning, execution and analysis of numerous measurements over a period of approx. five years
• Development of a hydraulics and solute transport model
• Preparation and presentation of expert reports to authorities

We were able to establish that any form of decontamination would be out of all proportion and that the ashes even made a valuable contribution to the environment. As a result, we saved the customer tens of millions of euros.