Five more million cubic meters remains to be pumped out

BELGRADE - There is a little over five million cubic meters of water left to be pumped out of the Tamnava - Zapadno Polje open coal mine pit, out of the 187 million cubic meters brought by the flooding in May last year, RB Kolubara Director Milorad Grcic said Friday.

Grcic said for Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the work could not have been carried out faster and that certain mining engineers from Russia had even recommended that the work should be done even slower to avoid triggering landslides and causing additional damages.

We are also repairing the dredges that were under water, he added.

Grcic said that production at Kolubara was stable and the 75,000 tons of coal sent to thermal power plants was more than enough.

The plan for 2015 predicts 28.3 million tons of coal and Kolubara has already produced more than six million, he added.

As far as Kolubara is concerned, the energy system is stable, Grcic said.

Photo Tanjug, S. Radovanovic (illustration, archive)