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Environment Management System |
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| Location of the Power Station "Bełchatów" |
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The Power Station "Bełchatów" is situated on the south edge of the Szczercow valley, which is,accordingtothe Jerzy Kondracki's regional classification (1994), a part of the Great-Polish Lowlands.
The Szczercow valley is a plain, covered with clays and sands of the Warta glacier with partly formed dunes, lying at about 160-200 m above sea level.
Two rivers cross the surface of this plain: the Widawka and the Krasówka.
Realization of the investment plan in Bełchatów caused great transformation of the original earth's relief and resulted in arousal of several human-created forms.
These transformations include arousal of: artificial excavations and dumping grounds, levelling of earth's surface, connected with construction of the power station and other co-operating companies, building new housing estates and development of infrastructure in close neighbourhood of the mine.
This kind of transformations is visible on the whole open pit and power station area.
The greatest changes in the earth's relief are connected directly not with the power station's activity but with lignite excavation.
The most noticeable part of the closest neighbourhood of the power station is the excavation and the outer dumping ground formed in the process of overburden stripping.
The outer dumping ground is almost as high as the natural mountain situated in the southern part of the Bełchatów Upland, Borowa Góra.
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