Reclamations today

From the mid-nineties until the present, several significant reclamation projects have been carried out and currently reclamation covering an area of 600 ha is under way. The financial exigence of the reclamation process for OKD in the long term represents 30% of total costs incurred for repairing the consequences of mining activities. Due to the fact that the state also takes part in reclamation funding. The pace of the reclamation work in the Karviná part of the district, which has swallowed up almost 7 billion CZK since 1991, has increased considerably. As mining has already been terminated in the Ostrava area, the landscape is no longer being devastated and the removal of the consequences is currently not carried out on such an intensive scale as in the case of the Karviná area. The termination of mining is reflected in an improved environment of the city of Ostrava and its close vicinity.

The largest reclamation operations were carried out or are still under way at the areas of Darkov, Lipiny, Bonkov, the forest of Oprechtice, Křemenec, Špluchov and the Svojsík valley, also in the environs of the Karviná creek and at the premises of the Hlubina reservoir and the sludge tanks of the Lazy Mine.

Darkov represents the largest area incorporated into reclaimed areas. An area of 147 ha provides space for suburban recreation with forest growth, a body of water, open meadows and access roads. The completion of the project is planned for 2010.

Reclamation Brochure