A pharaonic project will transform an abandoned mine into the second largest lake in Germany

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A pharaonic project will transform an abandoned mine into the second largest lake in Germany

The open-cast Hambach mine, from which brown coal has been extracted since 1978 between Cologne and Aachen, is about to create the second largest lake in Germany, after that of Constance. It still takes a lot of imagination to accept the idea that the dystopian landscape of the vast abandoned mine will regain natural life. But German energy company RWE has planned an ambitious project to recover the area: the water pipeline of the Rhine Gas Pipe…