Photo-a-Day (Thursday, 1st September, 2022)
Man Made
It’s difficult to get to now, but it has blended in very well.
The water is clean water from the settling ponds higher up and eventually runs into the river Douglas.
Photo: Dennis Seddon (Sony DSC-WX500)
That's a very pretty scene. I can almost hear the sound of the fall of water.
Nice one that Dennis, I've never been over there. Must put it on my ' to do ' list.
Its a pretty waterfall & good to know that ' man ' can make a nice job of restoring if 'he ' tries.
Would it be water that would have collected & maybe caused problems as in the Aberfan disaster ?
Helen, there was a stream here before the opencast mining, The water came from the Overflow of the Swan Lodge in the Plantations. After the restoration the water from the Great Haigh Sough was diverted to Settling Ponds a little higher up from here. In these ponds the impurities in the water settle to the bottom and the clean water on top runs off to join the stream. From here, the water runs down another man made waterfall where it joins the former yellow Brook and then runs down to the River Douglas.
A lovely little waterfall, the Hockery brook in Hindley was cleaned in the same way, the orange water from the Deep Pit, goes through reed beds, and the brook is now clear as a bell.
Nothing as magical as water trickling down ….
Thanks for that info Dennis.
I was thinking of slag heaps, wonder if opencaste mining ceated the heaps, perhaps not.
Another lovely photo Dennis, of all our walks in the past. I think we knew every nick and cranny, of the woods and surrounding field's, been past this lots of times.We saw all the open cast mining going on at the time.Special memories.