RATS.        2008 Welbeck Pictures.

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Catastrophe Still In Progress. 

Additional photographs can be found at Welbeck Infrastructure.

2008 January Floods.

What can you see in these two photographs?

Oil drum, Gas cylinder, Footballs? many many pieces of polystyrene and hundreds of empty plastic bottles.

What can you see in these two photographs?

It should be the river Calder. 

That oil drum, two propane cylinders, two fridges, a tyre, a plastic drum, polystyrene, footballs and more plastic bottles.

Yet more of the same -this is the stark reality of what the toxic tip brings to Wakefield.

Welbeck Waste Management allow this waste to enter the river Calder, they should be made to tidy up their own waste.

The Waste Recycling Group (Welbeck Waste Management) are owned by a Spanish Conglomerate, and their profits come from destroying our environment, if they were forced to live and work at Welbeck - things would be different. It seems the insane push for profits overrides the care/protection that should be give to the environment.

ARE THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY SATISFIED WITH THIS SITUATION, 

OR IS IT OK FOR ANYBODY TO TIP RUBBISH INTO THE RIVER.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

WILL YOU ALLOW THESE DOUBLE STANDARDS TO CONTINUE?

WHY HAVE YOU NOT INVESTIGATED THIS MATTER?

AFTER YEARS OF THIS ABUSE, WHY DO YOU DENY/IGNORE THE PROBLEM IS THERE?

Just to remind you of how pristine the river Calder is just upstream of the Welbeck Toxic Tip waste site. What a difference 1/2 a mile makes.

No floating rubbish, no rubbish blown into the tree's, no rubbish on the river banks.

Not one football, not one fridge, no oil drums, no plastic drums, no propane cylinders, no polystyrene and definitely no plastic bottles. 

Welbeck waste management refuse to accept that the waste is theirs - Prove it.

In the gulley's where excess water runs down from the Toxic Tip, you will find waste collecting, awaiting the next heavy rainfall to wash it into the river Calder.

If you look up into the trees bordering onto the river Calder bank. once again you see evidence of wind blown waste. if the trees did not stop this waste then it would have entered the river or blown into Altofts, Eastmoor, Kirkthorpe, Normanton, Stanley, Wakefield or anywhere the wind blows.

One week earlier.

These photographs were taken on Monday 21st January 2008, when the river rose very quickly. In the days before the tip was built, and the river flooded, the water ran onto the land where the tip now stands, and this catchment area held large quantities of water alleviating the amount of flood reaching the canal viaduct via the river Calder.

You can see all the floating debris collecting in the eddies in between the bridge and viaduct.

This photograph is a little out of focus, apologies for that. This photograph is quite important - the mass of waste and debris has become trapped against the bridge, the bridge is buried in the middle of this mass, at times like this  the bridge vibrates, bangs and sways due to the enormous pressure from the floodwater.

On this photograph the bridge has been breached by floodwater and debris and is underwater, the man ringed in white is risking his life to salvage empty alloy beer barrels ( there were 2 ), from the river at the side of the bridge.

A little earlier in the day when the floodwater is starting to rise up to the underside of the viaduct.

Another blurred image showing the river flowing over the bridge, and the water is rising up the bank, at this stage we are looking at 25 foot plus depth of floodwater. You would not normally see the river from this distance/angle.

Two photographs above showing a small amount of the rubbish and waste carried down from Welbeck Toxic Tip by the floodwater - the waste on the left consists largely of plastic bottles, polystyrene blocks, canisters, kegs and at least 7 footballs. The waste on the right consists mostly of plastic pop bottles and polystyrene blocks.

Is this Welbeck waste?  - This rubbish matches the household waste dumped into Welbeck Toxic Tip, there was no rubbish in the river above Kirkthorpe Weir so where did this waste magically appear from? 

Do Welbeck Waste Management or the Environment Agency have any comments to make on this horrendous situation. 

                         Going!                                                              Going!

Gone.

Thursday 10 January 2008.

These 4 photographs show just how much the river Calder has flooded, the river height is way above normal, the river has breached its banks flooding the footpaths along its banks, the river is more than 20 feet above normal.

Flood damage or is it?

These 4 photographs show different parts of the penine way footpath, it was pedestrianised by WMDC and covered with white stone chips to aid drainage, it has been totally destroyed by WRG plant,  you can still see the marks from tractor tyres. Who paid for the work done to this foot path? Why doesn't WMDC prosecute the people responsible? The path is now a quagmire and impassible.

Truths.

Just a short distance up river at the Kirkthorpe weir (just above Welbeck Toxic Tip) and with the river in flood there is no waste in the river, and the pontoon stretched across the river is clean of debris. There is no litter or debris in the river Calder, the river is pristine and devoid of waste/rubbish!

The river Calder looking at the tip is still clear of debris, so are the banks and trees.

More truths.

These pictures were taken close/adjacent  to Welbeck Toxic Tip, you can start to see windblown litter in the trees, in the river and it would have been seen on the river bank if the flood water had not washed it away.

The black tube in the river is hollow and made from plastic. coincidentally it came off  the Welbeck Toxic Tip bank, funny that, and as you can see it could not possibly have climbed over the weir at Kirkthorpe". Do remember that drainage pipe.

And nothing but the truth.

We are now below Welbeck Toxic Tip, and you can see very large amounts of waste/rubbish accumulating in the river Calder (as well as that pipe)  there is also waste in the trees and farther up on the river banks.

I wonder how WRG could possibly explain how this waste got into the river, fly tippers I suspect, or those giant toxic rabbits.

Fence repaired, all tied up with wire and BLUE string at one end, left loose and dangling at the other - remind me this is the 21st century and Disney are not making a film.

Same gate 10 seconds later, just look at the gap at the right hand side of the gate, perhaps they need more than blue string. Oh by the way there is no padlock on the gate - security I don't think so.

Look at the security fence at the back of this photograph, is it there to stop Travellers/Gypsies or children from getting onto the site? It can't stop waste paper!