Employer: Ellatzite-Med AD and the Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW), Bulgaria
Designer and contractor: Geotechmin OOD

Description of the project:
In 2004, after a tender procedure under the Bulgarian Public Procurement Law, Geotechmin OOD was nominated as a designer and contractor of the project "Reclamation of Benkovski-1 Tailings Pond". The proposed designs were approved by the Interdepartmental Expert Committee to the MoEW.

The project is divided into two subprojects which include the following works:

Subproject 1: Finalizing the Reclamation of the Slope and the Beach

• reclamation of the downstream slope – 710 decares, including:
  • restoration of erosive areas and old ditches; additional reclamation – 95.60 decares
  • construction of berms, dewatering structures and collectors
  • forming of the slope and recultivation of the crest – 40,500 cub.m.
• reclamation of the beach – 962 decares

Subproject 2: Reclamation of the Lake

• dewatering – 402,000 cub.m.
• drying, consolidation and restoration of the dewatered area – 795.7 decares
• construction of a surface water lowering facility

Common for subprojects 1 and 2:

• quarrying and transportation of earth mass – 500,000 cub.m.
• biological recultivation – grassing, forestation, fertilizing, seeding, sprinkling, earthing up, mowing