Davenant
The Ellington mine water treatment plant looming over the remains of a spoil heap which is crumbling into the sea at Lynemouth.
Mar 15 at 10:30amWeb
Show threadDavenant6d ago
The colliery here stretched 24km under the North Sea and the tunnels are beneath the groundwater. If the polluted water from the mine rises up to the water table it will be contaminated irreversibly, so they built this immense plant to pump water out of the mine continuously, along with a series
Show threadDavenant6d ago
of huge lagoons to settle out the iron etc. The spoil heap here is contaminated with asbestos and other waste. You can see all sorts crumbling down the cliff onto the beach, which looked like a Martian landscape yesterday.