What's next for the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine, the Oder and the Żelazny Most Reservoir? – the voice of Dr. Maciej Gruszczyński on Radio Wrocław / News / Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy

What's next for the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine, the Oder and the Żelazny Most Reservoir? – the voice of Dr. Maciej Gruszczyński on Radio Wrocław

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Maciej Gruszczyński, our colleague from the Institute, was a guest on the radio program "An Evening from Lower Silesia" on Radio Wrocław. He took part in a discussion on the subject of "What's next for the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine, the Oder and the Żelazny Most Reservoir?" on February 13, 2024.

Besides Dr. M. Gruszczyński, the program was also attended by:

Professor Herbert Wirth, PhD Eng., of the Department of Mining at Wrocław University of Science and Technology,
Rafał Wolanowski, director of Department of Safety and Crisis Management at the Lower Silesian Voivodship Office.

The program addressed future activities related to the Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine, the Oder and the Żelazny Most Reservoir.

We strongly encourage you to listen to the recording of the program https://www.radiowroclaw.pl/articles/view/138080/KG-1 , in which our expert shared his experience and knowledge about the largest mining waste disposal reservoir in Europe, Żelazny Most.

In order to realize the magnitude of the size of this reservoir, some data is worth mentioning. The reservoir is surrounded by earthen dams with a total length of 14 kilometers, reaching up to 70 meters in height. To illustrate, it is an area that could accommodate as many as 2816 football fields. Żelazny Most covers an area of 2189 hectares, which is equivalent to a volume that would accommodate 233000 Olympic swimming pools. The total volume of the reservoir is as much as 876 million m3. Approximately 30 million tons of material enter the reservoir annually. The size of this object makes it visible even from space.

"Żelazny Most Reservoir kz04" by Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.