mi.ttu .ee Sustainable Groundwater Resource Management in Estonian Oil Shale Deposit Helena Lind Jüri R. Pastarus Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Mining Kalmer Sokman and Erik Väli Estonian Oil Shale Mining Company (Eesti Põlevkivi) Riho Iskül Kunda Nordic Cement Company
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Sustainable Groundwater Resource Management in Estonian Oil Shale Deposit
Helena LindJüri R. PastarusTallinn University of Technology, Department of Mining
Kalmer Sokman and Erik VäliEstonian Oil Shale Mining Company (Eesti Põlevkivi)
Riho Iskül Kunda Nordic Cement Company
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Content of the presentation
• Sustainability• Is the groundwater resources
management sustainable?• Problems and impacts of oil shale mining• Environmental taxes • Are we sustainable?• Can we be more sustainable?• Conclusion
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Sustainability
• Water quality, resource and environmental diversity remains while groundwater is used
• We predict the impacts in advance and use the best possible technological solutions
• Long term development
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Impacts of the oil shale mining
• The main impact to the environment during mining and after mining:• change of water regime: decreasing &
increasing waterlevel• change of groundwater chemical
components
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Hydrogeological and mining conditions
• Mines next to closed and water filled areas• Oil shale outcrop area
Analyse of 2006: • 50-90% precipitations• Recirculating water – water from
closed mines• Groundwater
Methodology of analyse: Reinsalu, E (2005). Changes in mine dewatering after the closure of exhausted oil shale mines. Oil Shale, 22(3), 261 - 273
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Changes in watertable
• Water level decreases
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Water quality: microcomponents of water in mine
Indicator UnitWater in mine, 2004
Water in mine, 2006
Normatives of mineral water
Normatives of drinking water
Soodla water reservoir
pH 7,1 7,44 6,5-9,5 8
NH4+ mg/l 0,017 0,26 <0,5 0,005
NO2- mg/l 0,015 0,01 <0,5 0,003
NO3- mg/l 11,7 6,41 50 50 0,76
Cl- mg/l 16,4 32,69 200 < 250
SO42- mg/l 342,4 36,1 200 < 250 31,1
Ca2+ mg/l 174,5 124,8 150 - 53
Mg2+ mg/l 51,6 40,9 50 - 5
Total Fe mg/l 0,69 0,48 1 < 0,2 (1,0) 0,27
Oil products mg/l 0,15 0,063 0.05
Total phenols mg/m3 <0,001 <0,003 < 0,0005
Data: Reinsalu, E; Valgma, I; Lind, H; Sokman, K (2006). Technogenic water body closed oil shale mines. Oil Shale, 23(1), 15 - 28.
Estonian Oil Shale Company
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Legislation
• Environmental taxes are increasing every year:
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Water contamination
Drinking water andundergroundmine/open pit waterWaste dumping
Air pollution
Oil Shale(production+losses)
Data: Estonian Oil Shale Company
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Environmental taxes and sustainability
• Increasing environmental taxes has incentive effect:
• use new mining methods and technology,• new environment protective technologies (infiltration
dams)• to pump out less groundwater• to clean the water• To be more effective, decrease losses
-> to decrease usage of nature resources-> to decrease influence on environment
and society (nearby living people)
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Resources management
• To understanding the behaviour of a groundwater system and its interaction with the environment is nessesary to have a sustainable management plan
• Mathematical models supported by field information have a key role in assessing the future behaviour of a system to find effective operating conditions for sustainable development and management groundwater resources.
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Groundwater modelling
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Are we sustainable?
• Watertable recovers within 2 to 5 years after the pumping has stopped,
• The quality of waterfilled underground mine is close to natural groundwater limits within 5 years
Data: Reinsalu, E; Valgma, I; Lind, H; Sokman, K (2006). Technogenic water body closed oil shale mines. Oil Shale, 23(1), 15 - 28.
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Where can we be more efficient, sustainable?
• There can be techncal solutions to avoid water income – infiltration dams, permeable walls
• Clean the water to reach the drinking water quality
• Computational mathematical models can be used to allocate the technical and environmental constraints
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Where can we be more efficient, sustainable?
But,
->There is always question of money, what is more pofitable?
is it cheaper to pump the water and pay the taxes or
use new innovative solutions?
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Conclusion
• Increasing taxes has affect to develop new innovative technologies • to mine the maximum possible resources with
less losses,• in the same time avoiding expansive impact to
the environment
• There can be used technological solutions to be more effective, environmentally friendly, sustainable