We are all doomed! (Cwmrheidol pollution?)

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rufenig
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Newbie Topic Starter

13 years ago

On the BBC web site
Latest thing to panic about
Pollution from mines in the floods.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18391758

Scientists are to investigate whether severe flooding near Aberystwyth has contaminated land with harmful metals from abandoned mines.

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Vanoord
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13 years ago

Modified the thread title.

Did initially think that the photograph had been borrowed from here, but it hadn't.

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

simonrl
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Administration

13 years ago

"Vanoord" wrote:
Modified the thread title.

Did initially think that the photograph had been borrowed from here, but it hadn't.

It's the stock photo of Cwm Rheidol that the Beeb trot out every time the words "mine", "pollution" and "wales" are involved. You'll have seen it before on articles about the reed-bed filtering process!

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by