Controlling water flow from an abandoned mine to a nearby river

The situation

When water fills our customer’s abandoned asset, it’s pumped to a nearby river.

However, the water within the asset contains potentially harmful deposits and high salinity levels, so it can only be discharged into the river when the river is deep enough to dilute it.

The water levels in the asset must also be carefully controlled to prevent water from escaping into unknown, unmonitored, and underground channels and polluting watercourses.

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The optimal pumping solution to lower costs and prevent pollution

The situation

A pumping station feeding water to a treatment scheme was failing too often, becoming costly and time-consuming to fix. The customer approached Oren Environmental to find a long-term, more cost-effective solution to the problem.

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