„Sinkhole hazard and risk management in post-mining areas” (SIRIMA)
Source of funding: The European Union’s Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant 5997/FBWiS/2024/2).
The task was funded from the state budget under the program called „Projekty Międzynarodowe Współfinansowane”
The value of the funding is 476 898 PLN, with the total value of the project amounting to 1 324 719 PLN.
In the SIRIMA project we will use new methodologies to study the conditions under which the sinkhole occurrences in post mining areas, where the natural groundwater level is restored. The main goal of the project is to reduce the risk of uncontrolled and unexpected discontinuous movements of the Earth’s surface, mainly sinkholes, in the areas of closuring mines and during the flooding process in European countries. This will be achieved through creation a new methodology to determine the hazard of discontinuous deformations in post-mining areas. Current computational and technological capabilities enable a new approach to the problem and will allow for the determination of regions at hazard of sinkholes. The research conducted as part of the project will answer the question of how the process of decommissioning a mining plant takes place, the accompanying changes in measurable physical and spatial parameters of the geological centre will have an impact on the hazard of formation of discontinuous deformation in the form of sinkholes.
Website of the project: www.sirima.gig.eu
Contact person: Prof. D.Sc. Eng. Krzysztof Tajduś
