My river's gone all orange.

[zeitghost]

Huge stretch of river turns bright orange leaving environment chiefs baffled | Mail Online

"Baffled"?

How can you possibly be baffled by mine water runoff.

Feckwhit.

[Spacecadet]

Huge stretch of river turns bright orange leaving environment chiefs baffled | Mail Online

"Baffled"?

How can you possibly be baffled by mine water runoff.

Feckwhit.

baffled as in, they can't yet link it to CO2 and global warming

[northernladuk]

They want to come to see the canal in Worsley/Eccles. It is almost always Orange.

[EternalOptimist]

Ah.

Of course.

Silly me.

It's across the mountain from the Gleision mine.

Lots of these mines link up underground, I wonder if that's got anythingn to do with it.

couldnt be anything to do with that disaster could it ?

[EternalOptimist]

Nah.

Just coincidence, I'd have thought.

Though it does show how much water builds up in those old workings once you turn the pumps off.

I'll tell you about the 'Donkeys Plonker' one day. dont forget to remind me

[Sysman]

baffled as in, they can't yet link it to CO2 and global warming

Or haven't managed to point the finger yet.

And hence know where to send a hefty cleanup bill.

[d000hg]

Saying it's due to mine workings isn't really an answer. Unless (maybe even if) there was recent severe rainfall, the question is WHY it happened, especially why so suddenly.

[Sysman]

British Coal.

Simples.

I once had a colleague whose house was suffering from subsidence to the point where he couldn't sell it. Despite it being pretty obvious who the culprit was, it took quite a fight to get compensation.