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Modern day mines are planned for using computer modles and simulations in order to account for estimation of damages and costs which improves the effectivness of the mine dewatering techniques applied today as well as environmental evaluations. This will also accound for an estimation of damage that would be caused by groundwater contamination from the site. These modles are often made with very specific assumptions of conditions for the sorrounding environment and ground.

Problems with mine dewatering[ edit]
Dewatering a totally or partially flooded mine, or even as a normal procedure in normal mine activity, may carry a number of problems, most of which are environmentally related. This can happen in open pit mines as well as in underground mines. Large problems are also developing with abandonned mines that have accumulated acid mine drainage that are growing to become a larger problem as the water sits in the mine and reacts with the exposed rock. There can be mitigated through proper managment and with enough funds.

The most relevant concerns with mine dewatering are related to acid mine drainage and the dispersal of contaminated water into the sorrounding water table and the general environment becoming a serious source of pollution. This situation can occure in multyple ways such as bad practice of how the water is ejected and contained, lack of containment and equipent faults. A lot of these are directly or indirectly related to equipment malfunction from which results in drainage water being released into the environment. One such way is the accumulation of water especially in deep water mines which could allow water to escape in the sorrounding soil and water table.