Saturday, January 08, 2005
Trow Quarry-Temple Park
At last! Some action!
According to the Shields Gazette who have had some leaked minutes passed to them,the National Trust (owners of Trow Quarry) have decided that it's time to restrict public access to the site, because of the dangerously high levels of pollutants, methane, cyanide, lead, mercury, brown, white, and blue asbestos, benzo pyrites and other cancer causing agents.
Following a new risk assesment the NT have decided that it would be wise to commission further more detailed investigations of the site, and that the public should be excluded on grounds of safety. All this after both the Council and the NT declared the site safe on television in December.
Please remember, that at the time Trow Quarry was used as a landfill site in the 1950's and early 1960's, we were also burying our rubbish at Benton Road and Temple Park.
The same Temple Park that Council Officers are recommending building a school upon! We were using the same methods at the same time to bury the same types of pollutants!
Surely it is now time to order a thorough site investigation at Temple Park and Benton Road to ensure that no hasty decisions are made to develop further?
It is worth remembering also that the Church of England gave Temple Park to the Borough of South Shields in 1946 to be used in perpetuity for leisure and recreational purposes, not for wholesale development, and also that the Leisure Centre that stands there is equipped with expensive monitoring equipment to detect concentrations of methane gas emissions. This is an important point; a mixture of 5% methane in air is very explosive ( any miner will verify this point) and one needs to question the number of temporary closures at Temple Park Leisure Centre over the past five years.
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According to the Shields Gazette who have had some leaked minutes passed to them,the National Trust (owners of Trow Quarry) have decided that it's time to restrict public access to the site, because of the dangerously high levels of pollutants, methane, cyanide, lead, mercury, brown, white, and blue asbestos, benzo pyrites and other cancer causing agents.
Following a new risk assesment the NT have decided that it would be wise to commission further more detailed investigations of the site, and that the public should be excluded on grounds of safety. All this after both the Council and the NT declared the site safe on television in December.
Please remember, that at the time Trow Quarry was used as a landfill site in the 1950's and early 1960's, we were also burying our rubbish at Benton Road and Temple Park.
The same Temple Park that Council Officers are recommending building a school upon! We were using the same methods at the same time to bury the same types of pollutants!
Surely it is now time to order a thorough site investigation at Temple Park and Benton Road to ensure that no hasty decisions are made to develop further?
It is worth remembering also that the Church of England gave Temple Park to the Borough of South Shields in 1946 to be used in perpetuity for leisure and recreational purposes, not for wholesale development, and also that the Leisure Centre that stands there is equipped with expensive monitoring equipment to detect concentrations of methane gas emissions. This is an important point; a mixture of 5% methane in air is very explosive ( any miner will verify this point) and one needs to question the number of temporary closures at Temple Park Leisure Centre over the past five years.
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