Mine water management

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Guidance and regulation

• Nent Haggs mine water treatment scheme maps
  • Map
  • 25 June 2020
  • Coal Authority
• Rivers polluted by abandoned metal mines in Cornwall and Devon
  • Map
  • 17 December 2020
  • Coal Authority
• Rivers polluted by abandoned metal mines in England
  • Map
  • 21 February 2020
  • Coal Authority
• Metal pollution in South Tyne rivers
  • Map
  • 21 February 2020
  • Coal Authority
• Storing and dewatering non-hazardous iron ochre sludge from abandoned coal mines: RPS 262
  • Guidance
  • 22 September 2022
  • Environment Agency

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News and communications

• Divers complete underwater operation off the north east, England coastline
  • 26 July 2023
  • Coal Authority
  • News story
• Construction begins on Skewen mine water management scheme
  • 22 July 2021
  • Coal Authority
  • Press release
• Switch to solar energy shows the Coal Authority shine
  • 30 June 2021
  • Coal Authority
  • Press release
• New composting drive turns remediation into fertilisation
  • 8 June 2021
  • Coal Authority
  • Press release
• Ochre from mine water gets new lease of life as artists’ pigment
  • 11 December 2020
  • Coal Authority
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Mine waters: challenges for the water environment
  • 22 October 2021
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Caplecleugh mine water treatment scheme: reducing pollution from historical metal mining
  • 5 July 2021
  • Coal Authority
  • Research

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Environment (Wales) Act 2016 Part 1 Section 6: The Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystems
  • 24 December 2019
  • Coal Authority
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Coal Authority

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