Scheme approved to reduce acidity of colliery spoil at Harworth tip

摘要

Nottinghamshire County Council has granted permission for the importation and spreading of a liming by-product at Harworth Colliery spoil tip number two after considering noise, traffic and contamination issues. The tip was located in the north of the county eight kilometres north-east of Worksop in a generally flat, rural setting. Harworth Colliery was not currently operational and the tip, which covered an area of 109 hectares, was unfinished with considerable areas of exposed colliery spoil. Other areas had been restored to poor semi-improved grassland and woodland plantation.