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SOIL PROTECTION Catalunya - the Balearic Islands / Principality of Andorra

 
 

soil protection (general information)

 

Vienna Soil Declaration

 

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degradation and control processes

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soil series and correlation

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Soil Series and Soil Types catalogue of Catalonia

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soil Types (> 2010)

soil Series (1993 - 2009)

PROCESOS DE DEGRADACIÓN Y CONTROL

Degradation process:


At landfill sites.


Descripción:


Erosion by diffuse and concentrated surface runoff with the formation of rills and gullies; also mass movements in the form of landslides. Poor implantation of vegetation.

Importance: localized



Diagnostic criteria:


Survey of the area. Identify the presence of mass movements, rills or gullies.





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Landfill site with erosive
processes. Sant Corneli,
Bergadà(R. M. Poch)





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Gully at a landfill site.
Sant Corneli, Bergadà
(R. M. Poch)







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Abandoned pit in an opencast coal mine.
La Cerdanya (M. R. Teira)


Prevention and control:


A landfill site rehabilitation project should be drawn up according to criteria based on soil and water conservation. It should include calculations of slope stability and propose efficient methods of revegetation. It is also necessary to plan the monitoring of any proposed rehabilitation measures.

In Catalonia, environmental management associated with mining activities is regulated by Law 12/1981, Decree 343/1983 and other legislation deriving from them. They aim to successfully integrate the affected spaces into their local natural environments once the activity is finished.





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Profile of an area of soil suitably rehabilitated to recover its function of biomass.
Cotobello, Asturias
(J. Porta)



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Rehabilitated waste tip at a former opencast coal mine. Rehabilitated according to criteria for soil and water conservation, recovering the function of pasture production. Cotobello, Asturias.
(J. Porta)



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