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EurOmax Strives to Minimise Environmental Impacts
January 16, 2009

EurOmax reclaims areas of surface disturbance: Trenches and roads
January 16, 2009

EurOmax reclaims areas of surface disturbance: drill sites
January 16, 2009

EurOmax Undertakes Environmental Monitoring within its projects
January 16, 2009

EurOmax Sponsors World Water Monitoring Day in Bulgaria
January 16, 2009

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GALLERY EurOmax Strives to Minimise Environmental Impacts, Latest Update March 30, 2009

We strive to minimise our impact wherever possible. Before we acquired this exploration area, poor road construction resulted in persistent pollution. Very Ugly indeed.

We sheeted the roads with gravel in co-operation with the the local community. We diverted spring run-off off the road and under the roadway with culverts.

We added abundant rip-rap to preserve the culvert embankment and minimise erosion.

Both upstream and downstream, ensuring a long life for this structure.

The impact of proper road and culvert construction in this instance - dramatic.

Road and culvert construction crew. We thank you.

Culvert construction takes considerbale effort. If its to survive a culvert needs to be considered as an engineered structure - not just a burried pipe. Preparation is important and labout intensive.

A firm gently sloping base needs to be prepared with material which will not damage the culvert. We use HDPE ribbed culvert pipe. It is the perfect solution because it can be installed easily, quickly and requires less equipment than other solutions.

Most of the construction of culverts is manual labour with only minimal use of heavy equipment. Here fine sand is being compacted by hand around the culvert.

HDPE culvert has strength and a high shock resistance to weight ratio. It is lightweight and can be installed by minimum size crews and equipment, has great longitudinal flexibility and is safer to work with than heavier solutions.

The culvert is an engineered structure which should last many years minimising the erosion of materials from the road surface into the drainage.

The culvert must have at least 50 cms of roadbase above to avoid damage from vehicles. Note the rip-rap upstream to minimise erosion.

Note the rip-rap downstream to minimise erosion by reducing water velocity on culvert exit. Net effect: minimising our impact.

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