Completion of waste deposit remediation measures at the former Otto Schott Platz Landfill in Jena

GICON as planner and construction supervisor

After years of planning and realization, one of the costliest remedial actions in Thuringia is now considered completed.  In the presence of Jürgen Reinholz, the Minster of the Environment for the State of Thuringia and Dr. Albrecht Schröter, the Mayor of Jena, the multi-year remediation work at the landfill in the Jena forest was completed with a festive ceremony at the SCHOTT villa in Jena on October 6^th, 2010.

The department of Remediation Management / Site Restoration at GICON – Großmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH was integrated into the project as a planner and construction supervisor through the project coordinator, SCHOTT JENAer GLAS GmbH.

The remediation of the former landfill took place with the objective of averting possible hazards to humans through direct contact with contaminated soil (deposit).  In addition, seepage of contaminants from the landfill into groundwater was to be prevented and the stability of the body of the landfill was to be rebuilt via flattening of the slopes.    

After extensive preliminary investigations and heeding qualified planning for the overall context of the remediation at SCHOTT, the remedial work was begun in July, 2006.  As part of the work, the stability of approx. 100,000 m³ of wastes such as broken glass, construction debris, oily glass sludges, scratch tar, and ashes, which were deposited between 1957 and 1982 on 2.5 hectares, was profiled, stabilized with an appropriate surface cap, and then subsequently planted.         

The environmental hazards have therefore been removed and the grounds of the former landfill will be converted into a nature center in the near future.