Project topic

Reject ineffective measures during the closure of a salt plant (salt deposit)

Contracting Party

Chemical company

Aims and scope

The aim was to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of planned sealing measures for approx. 50 deposit boreholes up to a depth of 250 m at a cost of approx. €15 mio.

Project topics

  • Analyse the situation and establish a project strategy
  • Build a deposit and hydrogeology model
  • Evaluate approx. 100,000 water level readings and production data
  • Process the well extensions and their graphic representation
  • Build a 3D density MODFLOW model
  • Set up a monitoring programme

Project success

The ineffectiveness of the planned measures was established and the implementation costs were avoided.

Project specification

Key services

Project strategy
Analysis / expert reports

Topics

Contaminated/abandoned sites
Geoecology

Duration

approx. 1 year