Participatory Geomonitoring for Future Mining—Resilience Management in the Cavern Storage Epe (Germany)

作者：Tobias Rudolph, Peter Goerke-Mallet, Andre Homölle, Andreas Müterthies, Holger Perrevort, Sebastian Teuwsen, Chia-Hsiang Yang · 发表于：Mining · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3390/mining4020014 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques、Geophysical Methods and Applications、Landslides and related hazards

Integrated geo- and environmental monitoring in mining represents a high-dimensional challenge (location, altitude/depth, time and sensors). This is challenging for experts but poses great problems for a multitude of participants and stakeholders in building up a complete process understanding. The Epe research cooperation aims to elucidate the ground movement at the Epe cavern storage facility with a public participation process. The research cooperation was founded by the city of Gronau, the citizens’ initiative cavern field Epe, the company EFTAS, Münster, and the Research Center of Post-Mining at the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Bochum. This research cooperation is the first in Germany to involve direct collaboration between science and the public. In the cavern field, which has been in operation since the 1970s, brine is extracted, and at the same time natural gas, crude oil and helium, as well as hydrogen in the future, are stored in the subsurface. The technical focus of this work was the development of a high-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of ground movements. The area is monitored annually by the mining company’s mine surveyor. The complexity of the monitoring issue lies in the fact that the western part is a bog area and a former bog area. Furthermore, the soils in the eastern part are very humus-rich and show strong fluctuations in the groundwater and therefore complex hydraulic conditions. At the same time, there are few fixed scatterers or prominent ...