Hesley Wood Spoil tip

[Eckolad]

As part of a previous role I've seen a lot of reclaimed colliery spoil tips and land.

 

It needs doimg, there is a lot of tips with a lot of coal suitable for power stations

[Gazza58]

they were poor quality trees anyway.

 

Of course they are,they growing in a slag heap.To hear some people talk its like the rainforest up there.

[Eckolad]

Of course they are,they growing in a slag heap.To hear some people talk its like the rainforest up there.

 

Indeed. The is a large amount of surface pollutants on a spoil heap.

 

But the nimbys forget this

[coppernut]

If the site is so poor why do Sheffield university ecology department take their students there to see the prime example of stage 2 regeneration. The site has regenerated so well that oak trees are now growing.

 

There are thousands of trees up there which are to be felled. RecyCoal identify that they need to remove 18000 trees before they can start any reclamation work.

 

As for the quality of the trees that is an excuse in order to cut them down. The new saplings will not have much chance of growing as they are not putting any topsoil on the site to enable them to grow.

 

I have seen recent photographs of the grimethorpe site - the restoration is pathetic.

 

 

As for pollution the site is heavily contaminated and there are no plans to remove them just bury them a little deeper for future generations.

[satman2222]

What contamanants are there up there?

 

 

 

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[Eckolad]

Colliery spoil by its very nature often contains heavy metals

[coppernut]

The contaminants on the tip include arsenic, asbestos, benzo parazenes - there is a list on the planning application made by RecyCoal and how they are going to cap them rather than remove them.

 

Also there is a potential risk to residents, within a 3 mile radius of the site, from the air borne dust particles. The risks identified from the dust include COPD, Chronic depression, low birth weight, lower birth rates and cancer.

 

The director of public health in Sheffield, Dr Jeremy Wight has written to the council about his concerns of the potential health risk to the residents, but it made no difference.

[gym_rat]

The contaminants on the tip include arsenic, asbestos, benzo parazenes - there is a list on the planning application made by RecyCoal and how they are going to cap them rather than remove them.

 

Also there is a potential risk to residents, within a 3 mile radius of the site, from the air borne dust particles. The risks identified from the dust include COPD, Chronic depression, low birth weight, lower birth rates and cancer.

 

The director of public health in Sheffield, Dr Jeremy Wight has written to the council about his concerns of the potential health risk to the residents, but it made no difference.

 

would you rather they left them to creat even more problems in the future?

 

surely it`s better that we sacrifice you for the greater good of mankind, well volunteered.

[REPO MAN]

does anybody know when they will be starting to take the coal out ?

[coppernut]

They are cutting the trees down now - this is supposed to be completed by the first of March to make sure the birds cannot breed. So I would have thought work would start soon after that but the wash plant has to be built first.