Following on from this
item. Masonry dams where constructed and water levels monitored in the old
eastside workings at Rossington colliery Doncaster
in 2001 to stop the ingress of water from the closed Armthorpe colliery when
its drainage pumps where turned off . There was great worry at the time that if
these failed it would lead to the closure of this colliery
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:25:13 +0000
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> Subject: Re: Dams
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> Not directly relevant but of interest, I did find somewhere online a detailed report from HM Inspector of Mines regarding the flooding of the Longannet Mine, the last colliery in Scotland, a few years ago, attributed to the failure of a dam put in to prevent water ingress from adjoining abandoned mines.
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> Alasdair.
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> In South Gloucestershire When Parkfield Colliery closed in the 1930's the
> lower parts of Frog Lane colliery started to flood. To slow the rate of
> water men were employed to build walls (solid masonry with mortar not just a
> loose stack) . As the water eventually worked its way through one another
> was built and so on
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> Regards
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> David
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