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Wyn
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18 years ago

Some while back the Environment Agency produced a document listing a "top 50" non ferrous metal mines impacting on the environment in Wales.
Here is the link
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/wales/426317/393155/
It leads off to all sorts of downloadable PDF files (report, maps etc) that are of interest.

(I've posted it on this forum because most are in mid Wales)

Incidentally, as well as the usual suspects, the list has some anomalies (I'm pretty sure that at least one mine is mis-identified). I think this reflects the original protocol that dates back to the National Rivers Authority (pre EA).

See what you think

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LeeW
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18 years ago

The EA often use 'old' names for these sites of which some are just given names of streams or rivers which they effect. And ofcourse sometimes this naming of watercourses as a 'site' is ofcourse a result of a number of different mines.

The list of coal mine discharges are the same (also for SEPA) with naming of watercourse as a site.

On same website there is this report for Cwm Rheidol http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/wales/954122/954127/1483292/?version=1&lang=_e

I went in a mine once.... it was dark and scary..... full of weirdos

When do I get my soapbox, I need to rant on about some b***cks