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Assessment, strategy development and implementation of the mining waste management in Cyprus

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The project aims to safeguard scarce groundwater reserves threatened by pollution from former exploitation of raw materials. The project will develop Decision Support Systems using GIS and analyses to help formulate new legislation and monitor progress of implementation and remediation.

Mining Waste from the new defunct, but formerly very extensive exploitation of massive sulphides, asbestos and chromite poses a major threat to scarce water resources on Cyprus. No investigation or quantification of this known problem has been done to date. In a three phase project of assessment, policy development and implementation, state of the art GIS will be used to evaluate analytical data of water and solid samples collected around three representative sites, modelling flow and producing pollution hazard maps. The main phase of developing Decision Support Systems will lead to the formulation of management policies for dealing with the waste tips, which will lead in turn to the drafting of legislation to govern any future activity as well as implementing policies for dealing with the waste tips. Monitoring systems set up during the assessment phase will feed data into the GIS in a post-project implementation phase.

A major transfer of technology and know how will be achieved during the project through training on the use of advanced GIS, management and analytical techniques, development of Decision Support Systems and the drafting of legislation conform to EU guidelines.

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Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Nicosia
Cypr

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