ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
- 1. Complex monitoring of waste storage yards – in the full range resulting from the phases of their performance – pre-working, working and post-working
- 2. Complex monitoring of water, waste water and waste water sediments
- 3. Monitoring of the environment state at the post-industrial degraded sited including post-mining sites – complex examinations of soil and basement ground quality – according to the valid standards
- 4. Biological monitoring – examinations from the range of ecotoxicology, biological and physical-chemical quality of water resources
- 5. Monitoring of radioactive air pollution
- 6. Geophysical monitoring
- 7. Vibroacoustic monitoring, noise and vibration in environment examinations
- 8. Gas and geotechnical monitoring of the slopes of other than dangerous and neutral waste storage yards
- 9. Examinations of the agriculture-nutritive products – bread-stuff, sugar, egg mass, milk, fish, milk and meat products, juices, coffee, tea, spices, sugar products and others – in the aspect of their pollution
1. Complex monitoring of waste storage yards – in the full range resulting from the phases of their performance – pre-working, working and post-working
1.1 Examinations of the physical-chemical features of the communal and industrial waste
- describing of the possibilities of environment safe usage and management of waste including:
- in underground mining excavations,
- for recultivation and leveling of degraded sites,
- for stabilization of grounds,
- in building, road building, building and cementing materials industry,
- in power industry as alternative fuel.
Examinations are conducted on the basis of valid legal acts with the particular regard to the Waste Act.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Monitoring Central Mining Institute
Katarzyna Bojarska D.Sc.Eng., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2280, e-mail: k.bojarska@gig.katowice.pl
Zbigniew Bzowski D.Sc., Eng., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2563, e-mail: z.bzowski@gig.katowice.pl
1.2 Examinations of dangerous waste, dangerous / not dangerous waste code qualification
- waste examinations at from the point of view of cancerogenic, explosive, toxic, mutagenic, ecotoxic and reproductiveness influent features.
The results obtained from the examinations confirm that the dangerous waste possesses features because of which it was enlisted as a dangerous waste or make possible to qualify it as other than dangerous.
Examinations are conducted according to the valid decree of the Minister of Environment.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Monitoring Central Mining Institute
Leszek Drobek D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2677, e-mail: l.drobek@gig.katowice.pl
Katarzyna Bojarska D.Sc., Eng., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2280, e-mail: k.bojarska@gig.katowice.pl
Zbigniew Modrzejewski M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2175, e-mail: z.modrzejewski@gig.katowice.pl
2. Complex monitoring of water, waste water and waste water sediments
2.1 Monitoring of physical-chemical and bacteriological features of:
- communal and industrial waste water sediments,
- waste water drained into the water and soil,
- drains from the waste storage yards,
- water extracts.
2.2 Monitoring of physical-chemical and bacteriological features of:
- drink and house usage water,
- swimming water,
- natural curative, mineral and spring water (bottled and from the intakes),
- surface and underground water,
- mine water.
2.3 Monitoring of physical-chemical and bacteriological features of:
- industrial, alimentary and curative salt,
- chemical agents,
- other materials and substances.
Range of the monitoring in the above mentioned cases contains:
- examinations of the physical-chemical composition of water and waste water (over 100 physics-chemical parameters including ions, heavy metals, physical indicators, organic compounds),
- microbiological examinations of water and waste water,
- radiometric examinations of water and waste water.
Examinations water and waste water composition are necessary for their quality and various house, environmental and social (including recreation and sport) aims usability estimation and also for correct estimation of toxic substances impact on the natural environment.
Works are conducted according to the decrees of competent ministries from the range of water-waste water management in which the legitimate value of acceptable pollution level in water and waste water was established. This value ensures consumers’ safety, protection of industrial installations and protection of natural environment against wrong waste water and drains impact.
Contact
Department of Environmental Monitoring Central Mining Institute
Małgorzata Bebek, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2467, e-mail: m.bebek@gig.katowice.pl
Krzysztof Mitko, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2467, e-mail: k.mitko@gig.katowice.pl
Zbigniew Modrzejewski M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2175, e-mail: z.modrzejewski@gig.katowice.pl
3. Monitoring of the environment state at the post-industrial degraded sited including post-mining sites – complex examinations of soil and basement ground quality – according to the valid standards
The range of the examinations contains:
- polluted soil and ground chemism estimation,
- estimation of metals, cyanides and aliphatic hydrocarbons content in the range of C12-C35, aromatic hydrocarbons derived from benzene (BTX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (WWA), chlorinated hydrocarbons (among others PCB), pesticides (chloroorganic pesticides and non-chloric compounds) and others organic pollutants.
Conducted environmental examinations allow to estimate the degree of the site pollution, so-called “zero state” on the day of examination performance. This information is necessary to decide about further site exploitation or its recultivation.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Monitoring Central Mining Institute
Zbigniew Bzowski, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2563, e-mail: z.bzowski@gig.katowice.pl
Arkadiusz Bauerek, M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2331, e-mail: a.baurek@gig.katowice.pl
Michał Gwoździewicz, M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2331, e-mail: m.gwozdziewicz@gig.katowice.pl
Leszek Drobek, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2677, e-mail: l.drobek@gig.katowice.pl
4. Biological monitoring – examinations from the range of ecotoxicology, biological and physical-chemical quality of water resources
biological monitoring in the range of:
- benthonic organisms: diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates,
- ecotoxical examinations of water.
The aim of these services is the diagnosis of the water environment quality state and estimation of the changes which take place in it. Examinations and analyses in the range of biological monitoring are conducted according to the Water Frame Directive.
Contact:
Department of Water Protection Central Mining Institute
Jan Bondaruk, M.Sc., Eng, tel. no.: +48 32 259 2466, e-mail: j.bondaruk@gig.katowice.pl
Leszek Trząski, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2296, e-mail: l.trzaski@gig.katowice.pl
5. Monitoring of radioactive air pollution
The range of the monitoring contains:
- demarcation of alpha-radioactive isotope concentration in the air,
- detection of pollution caused by purposeful dispersion of radioactive substances in the environment,
- demarcation of the mixing layer depth.
Contact:
Department of Technical Acoustic, Laser Technology and Radiometry Central Mining Institute
Krystian Skubacz, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2816, e-mail: k.skubacz@gig.katowice.pl
6. Geophysical monitoring
The range of the monitoring contains:
- demarcation of range and monitoring of aureole of pollution within soil and underground water in the area of waste storage yards and in the places of ecological catastrophes,
- estimation and monitoring of the processes of injection of chemical and waste medias into rock medium,
- estimation and monitoring of geomechanical hazards of the mining and post-mining sites stability, karst phenomena occurring and mass ground movements,
- establishment of usefulness for management of closed mines sites, examination of current state of rock mass using geophysical and geological methods, investment risk assessment and projection of qualifying for building works on the post-mining sites.
In each of the above mentioned tasks realized with usage of complex of geophysical methods (electric, seismic, georadar, gravimetry) we offer performance of measure, study, project and documentation works. We dispose modern measure apparatus and specialistic software.
Contact:
Department of Geology and Geophysics Central Mining Institute
Andrzej Kotyrba, D.Sc., Eng, tel. no.: +48 32 259 2377, e-mail: a.kotyrba@gig.katowice.pl
Łukasz Kortas, D.Sc., Eng, tel. no.: +48 32 259 2350, e-mail: l.kortas@gig.katowice.pl
Sławomir Siwek, M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2350, e-mail: slasiwek@gig.katowice.pl
7. Vibroacoustic monitoring, noise and vibration in environment examinations
The range of the monitoring contains:
- examinations of the site communication and/or industrial noise charge of considerable size;
- working out of the acoustic maps on the copies of maps comprised in state geodesical and cartographical resources which are the source of data used for:
- working out of data for state environment monitoring,
- creating and updating of the environment protection against noise,
- informing the society about noise hazard.
- working out of the Environment Impact Assessment (OOC) of the industrial objects, communication routes, communal management objects and others in the range of vibroacoustic hazards;
- working out of the acoustic forecasts for the investments and for the objects being modernized in various phases of realization;
- examinations in situ of the efficiency of the acoustic screens;
- examinations of the state of noise impact on people inside house, public and other buildings;
- noise coming from the sources localized in and out of the buildings.
- examinations of the state of vibration carried by the basis impact on the buildings construction and on the people inside the buildings
Contact:
Department of Technical Acoustic, Laser Technology and Radiometry Central Mining Institute
Janusz Kompała, Assoc. Prof. D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2234, e-mail: j.kompala@gig.katowice.pl
8. Gas and geotechnical monitoring of the slopes of other than dangerous and neutral waste storage yards
The range of the monitoring contains:
- biogas emission monitoring,
- geotechnical monitoring in the range of he morphology and stability of the slopes of other than dangerous and neutral waste storage yards according to the valid branch norm BN 87/9103-03 "Neutralization of city waste. Sampling, storage, transport and preliminary preparation for examination of the samples"
The aim of these measures and examinations is the assessment of the state of the exploited waste storage yard according to the valid Decree of the Minister of the Environment of 9th December 2002.
Measurements are conducted with the portable apparatus which allows to describe immediately the state of the biogas emission.
Contact:
Department of Post-Industrial Sites and Waste Management Central Mining Institute
Zbigniew Szafran, tel. no.: +48 32 259 2395, e-mail: z.szafran@gig.katowice.pl
9. Examinations of the agriculture-nutritive products – bread-stuff, sugar, egg mass, milk, fish, milk and meat products, juices, coffee, tea, spices, sugar products and others – in the aspect of their pollution
The range of the examinations contains:
- examinations and assessment of the potential pollution of the articles by the heavy metals;
- demarcation of the preservatives content;
- demarcation of he level of pollution by mycotoxins (aflatoxins, ochratoxins);
- demarcation of ash, humidity, salt and fat content.
Contact:
Department of Environment Monitoring Central Mining Institute
Małgorzata Bebek, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2467, e-mail: m.bebek@gig.katowice.pl
Katarzyna Bojarska, D.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2280, e-mail: k.bojarska@gig.katowice.pl
Zbigniew Modrzejewski, M.Sc., tel. no.: +48 32 259 2175, e-mail: z.modrzejewski@gig.katowice.pl
