Geoecology

Contact: Dr. M. Schönau
E-mail: GOEdont-like-spam.k-utec.de
Phone: + 49 3632 610 130
Fax: + 49 3632 610 105

Services

• Consulting on Environmental Affairs

• Consulting/expert opinions on environmental matters
• Surveys on environmental compatibility
• Concepts and implementation plans as well as plans on green areas in the sector of landscape design
• Ecological and geotechnical monitoring of construction sites

• Authorization Procedures

• Application documents for area management and preliminary planning procedures
• Application documents for authorization procedures (according to the laws of water protection, nature conservation, emission protection and construction)
• Operation plans according to the federal laws on mining (frame operation plans, main operation plans, special operation plans and . nal operation plans)

• Processing of Residue

               Step 1 – Registration / Historical Exploration

• Evaluation of aerial photos and other historical documents
• Interrogation of time-witnesses
• Reconstruction of the previous utilization of the area to be explored

               Step 2 – Evaluation of Endangering Factors

• Exploration for relevant information
• Detailed explorations

               Step 3 - Redevelopment/Recultivation and Surveillance

• Exploration of facilities for redevelopment and recultivation
• Development of concepts for redevelopment and recultivation
• Expert consulting on ecological recultivation
• Implementation of self-controlling measures

• Interdisciplinary Research Work

• Management of the Unstrut river basin area
• Measurement of the soil-damp in root areas
• Damp-measurement in salt-loaded matrices
• Material release in soil substitutes
• Methods of evaluating resist coatings
• Soil water regime models for dumps and deposits
• Bleicherode lysimeter station

Ramming core sounding to the sampling		Admission of a drillcore

Technology

• State-of-the-art Drilling Equipment:

• Ramming sounding equipment / drilling device RSB 0/1.4-88, Ramming core probes up to a ø 80 mm, Hollow bore corner ø 185 mm
• Pneumatic hammers COBRA and BOSCH

• Land Surveying:

• In-clock reading plate loading test
• Technology for registrating In - situ parameters (temperature, pH-value, conductivity, 02-content, redox tension)
• Damp measurement technology, damp measuring probes ML2 and PR1 Tensiometer for direct regulation and logger operation
• In. ltrometer (bed and ring-in. ltrometers and open-end-test)
• Weather station (Thies Company)

• Sampling Technology:

• Equipment for soil sampling (RKS, sampling wells, Headspace)
• Equipment for water sampling (various stainless steel scoops, sampling scoops for samples in deeper layers, various sampling pumps down to a maximum depth of 90 meters)
• Equipment for soil air sampling (gas bags, gas mice, headspace, FID as direct measuring)

Drilling equipment during the investigation of refuse dumps		Drilling equipment in the field operation

References

• Exploration of contaminated sites and preparatory measures for redevelopment on the factory grounds of the Rositz tarprocessing company and the disposal site ”Germania”
  UmweltministeriumThuringia/Germany
• First evaluation of all saline deposits at the locations of the former combined enterprise Kombinat KALI
  Mitteldeutsche Kali AG/Germany
• Systematic solutions for salt freight control and ecologically compatible salt freight regulation within the Thuringian river
  systems
  GVVmbH/Germany
• Pilot project Bleicherode – Development of a recultivation process of contaminated dumps
  GVVmbH Erfurt and Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt Osnabrück/Germany
• Final report on the implementation of a lysimeter experiment on the Bleicherode potash dump
  Thüringer Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft Jena/Germany
• Preparation and consulting on the recultivation of the factory grounds of COTTANA Textil GmbH
  Stadtverwaltung Mühlhausen and Grundstücksgesellschaft zur Altlastensanierung – Mühlstraße, In
  der Klinge and Im Flarchen/Germany
• Derivation of tolerable sulphate concentrations in flowing waters
  influenced by mining under ecological and economic aspects
  WISMUT GmbH/Germany
• Survey on the compatibility with the environment of the project ”Erection of a biomass combined heat and power station in the
  business park of Siegerland-Airport” (research into animals and plants as protected property)
  TÜV Thüringen Anlagentechnik GmbH/Germany
• Accompanying plan (landscape design) for repairing the dikes of Helderbach, Langenrodaer Bach, Wiehscher Bach and Nausitz Mühlgraben (creeks in Northern Thuringia)
  Staatliches Umweltamt Sondershausen/Deutschland
• Ecological monitoring of the ”Freeing of the river Wipper from floodwater within the town of Sondershausen”
  GVVmbH and Staatliches Umweltamt Sondershausen/Germany
• Production of managing tools for the water management under the conditions of saline entries within the drainage area of the
  upper and middle part of the river Unstrut
  Part 4 of a project: Explorations of the salt load entry of the area affected by 5 big potash residue dumps in the south of the Harz
  Mountains (material entries)
  Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum e.V./Germany

river training of the river Wipper Sondershausen 26.04.2004		river training of the river Wipper Sondershausen 08.06.2004