Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone: longwall mining engineering design - subsidence prediction, buffer distances and mine design options

About this document

This report is one in a series of three reports focused on the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) ecological community and longwall coal mining.

This report captures the findings of a research project that:

• reviewed information about subsidence-related ground movements, overburden caving mechanics and groundwater impacts, and assessed this information in relation to impacts on peat swamps
• evaluated the opportunities for management of the impacts through prediction and engineering intervention, such as mine design alteration and provision for suitable buffers.

This report was prepared using information that was publicly available as of early 2013.

Further information

• More about the IESC
• More about Coal, Coal seam gas and water