In 19982000 on the initiative of the Krkonoše National Parks Administration was a research project has been performed, the aim of which was to explain the internal structure and genesis of the peat mounds situated at the Labská louka SE of the Labe River spring. The research comprised detail survey of the area under study using several geophysical methods (multielectrode resistivity measurement, shallow refraction seismic survey), analysis of the petrophysical parameters, drilling of two shallow boreholes and geological and geomorphological investigations.