Objective Large areas of the West Balkan region are affected by coal ash deposits. Due to heavy metal contamination of this ash, water ressouces like groundwater are affected in the surrounding area by polluted effluents. Heavy metals entering the food chain and dust dispersion by wind erosion may negatively affect the health of local people. The aim of this project is to develop and test new and innovative methods for remediation of coal ash deposits and affected water ressources. Conventional and new, pla nt-based technologies will be evaluated for their potential to clean-up contaminated water bodies and effluents from deposits. Immobilisation of heavy metals using various amendments and establishment of a soil cover should reduce the transfer of tox ic metals to groundwater and to air, respectively. Crops with low metal uptake rates as well as (inter)cropping systems will be applied to allow safe agriculture on remediated coal ash sites. Landscape planning techniques will be applied for reintegrat ion of disposal sites into agricultural context. The technologies to be used in this project will be tested under laboratory conditions and at field scale subsequently. Up-to-date monitoring techniques will be applied to evaluate the effectiveness, sustainability and cost-efficiency of the methods. Special emphasis will be put on socio-economic aspects related to the problem and its remediation. Local people will be involved throughout the whole project duration. The results will be used to comp ile decision tools, which will afterwards be published in a handbook, which will be provided to local authorities, stakeholders and problem owners. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoalengineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationcompostengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesagricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass Keywords Reintegration of disposal sites remediation of industrial wastes Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-2002-C.1.2 - Industrial and municipal waste Call for proposal FP6-2002-INCO-WBC-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STIP - Specific Targeted Innovation Project Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES, VIENNA Address Gregor mendel strasse 33 Vienna Austria See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all HYDRO-ENGINEERING INSTITUTE SARAJEVO Bosnia and Herzegovina EU contribution € 0,00 Address Stjepana tomica 1 Sarajevo See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA, FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE Bosnia and Herzegovina EU contribution € 0,00 Address Stepe stepanovic 75 Banja luka See on map Links Website Opens in new window FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY ZAGREB - CROATIA Croatia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Svetosimunska 25 Zagreb See on map Links Website Opens in new window BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AT COTTBUS Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Universitaetsplatz 3-4 Cottbus See on map Links Website Opens in new window FORESTRY COMMISSION RESEARCH AGENCY United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Alice holt lodge, wrecclesham Farnham, surrey See on map Links Website Opens in new window JP ELEKTROPRIVREDA BIH, TERMOELEKTRANA "TUZLA" TUZLA Bosnia and Herzegovina EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vjekoslava tunjica 1 Tuzla See on map
