Still Polluted After The Tar Plant Vacated 65 Years Ago.
Caerphilly Mountain is massive it also stores a tremendous amount of water, a Brook suddenly appears from a limestone rock, up until 1930 this Brook near my home was freshwater there were fish living in it, according to my late Grandparents.
In 1930 a Commercial business started up a Tar Plant which contaminated land by the Brook, this company left Caerphilly in 1959 all their buildings were demolished there's nothing left to say this industrial plant was ever there bar for the land they left contaminated, and the contaminated Brook which flows into the Rhymney River into Cardiff then into the Bristol Channel.
The Brook is still Brown even after sixty five years have passed since the Tar Plant disappeared.
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And this is why it is important to prevent this like of abuse of the environment, before it happens. Back in the day science was unable to predict with such detail what could happen. Just think about what the US practice of "fracking" for oil is doing to the ground water reserves so many Americans still rely on for drinking water..😷
@senghenydd And potable water is one of the things under threat globally now. With droughts and overuse, the last thing people need is to waste it in a way it cant be recovered. (Not that this will effect Wales greatly. But my own continental also has an overuse issue and fertilizer run off causing algi contamination..😷
@whowasthatmaskedman This Brook is practically in my backyard so I have a perfect understanding of what's happened here, the contaminated soil where the Tar Plant stood should be removed, after sixty five years since the Tar Plant went the problem hasn't gone away.
@senghenydd I agree.. Its the understanding 60 years ago I question. They probably thought it would flush out in a couple of years. If they thought about it at all..😷
@whowasthatmaskedman Exactly what they thought that's my opinion only that hasn't happened,
Welsh Water are chasing these Brooks I expect they'll get this sorted out, I've started mentioning this in the right places, the local Council don't like spending any money that's one of the problems, this is on-going.
