For anyone interested, one of my neighbours is holding a meeting/petition signing regarding Viridor planning on installing a gas burning facility and a leechate reed bed amongst other things. The aim is to also try and shorten the lifespan of the landfill contract as well.

Local councillors and MP's have been invited and are expected to attend, the Green party especially as Viridor have been cutting trees down all over in order to erect a fence that does not have planning permission.

All are welcome to attend. If interested, drive up Standish Way which is where the old Parkwood College just off Shirecliffe Road used to be and look for the crowd!!

Please don't think that it only affects the Shirecliffe area. The wind that blows over the landfill site has enough gusto to carry the the crap over most of north Sheffield. I personally have never suffered so much with chest infections as I have over the last few years but have usually put it down to smoking.

ps its between 5pm - 7pm

Originally posted by coopster1974
Local councillors and MP's have been invited

There aren't any MPs at the moment, plenty of candidates though...

ps it's between 5pm and 7pm

What day? Thanks.

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JGH

I remember as a kid during the early eighties finding waste from what was then named Windscale nuclear reprocessing plant on Shirecliffe tip. I used to ride off road bikes and shoot rats on the waste tip pretty regularly.
One really hot summers day me and my dad were riding on the back edge of Shirecliffe college on what was then called Ropers waste tip. We found a pile of clear plastic lockable zip type bags each containing one single long glove made out of some sort of coated canvass and lined with foil effect material, the same bags also contained black powder. There was an A4 sheet of paper in each one with Windscale wrote in big letters and details about leak rates and other stuff.
Scary to think all that will have made its way down into the river Don and into the water table.

The level of contaminated waste on Parkwood Springs is a ticking bomb,
there is everything from mad cow to nuclear waste tipped on there.
The Ski Village extracts water from under this lot and sprays it back on to the slopes, we are told it's all safe of course,
if you had a p**s at the top of the hill it will reach the river Don by underground springs, the whole hillside is like a sponge,

it's not called SPRINGS for nothing.

:gag:

Wow, I'd kinda heard stories like this but thought it was the media playing things up. I can't believe that some of you have found items with Windscale written on it!

I'm scared now, I'm directly in front of the Springs and will get all the wind from it.

Dont quote me on this but I think we once dumped low level radioactive waste from the French nuclear fuel industry on there, I could be wrong.

I'm quite disturbed to read of all these poisonous substances that appear to have been dumped at Parkwood over the past decades..

About 18 months ago, North Sheffield Primary Care Trust questioned selected residents near the landfill site about any health problems they were suffering from.

Fury over Parkwood Health Study (http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/37dec03/parkwood1.shtml)

Despite an unusually high incidence of cancer sufferers in the area, the NCPT could not (or would not?) prove that the landfill site is to blame.

Therefore, the landfill site stays open :loopy:

Good old Sheffield, eh? The cleanest industrial city in Europe :gag:

I have memories of Parkwood Springs, and have witnessed at first hand all the pollutants that have been tipped over the years.

I can remember when there were blue bells covering the hillside, before the tipping began.

then NSM started tipping mostly clay waste, then along came Ropers tipping industrial waste, mainly graphite,
killed all the blue bells within a couple of years, covered everything in black dust.

Now there is all manner of waste being brought in from everywhere, it's not even Sheffield's waste,

nice profit for the Duke of Norfolk's estate though,
and a few backhanders for the boys.

You are right about external waste being imported into Sheffield:

Dumped on us - everyone’s toxic waste (http://www.burngreavemessenger.org.uk/messenger/february2002/dumped.shtml)

According to the article: The Duke of Norfolk owns the land and most of the shares in Parkwood. The return on shareholder funds in 1999-2000 was a handsome 47.47% . Landfill is in demand, and waste comes to Parkwood from all over the country, including Scotland and Wales.

Back in the early 1900s, the Duke of Norfolk provided Wincobank Hill to the people of Sheffield. Fast forward nearly a century, and witness how little concern his ancestors have for our city.

Sorry folks - its today!!!! Duh

Good link Abdul,

Might wake a few people up!!

Details sought on landfill site
Operators of a landfill site in Sheffield are being asked for details of what is being dumped there.
The Environment Agency said it had acted after concerns that the Parkwood site has been accepting hazardous waste for which it is no longer licensed.

Tony Grice, from the agency, said he was concerned that correct procedures were not being followed.

A spokesman for Parkwood's operators, Viridor, said they had no comment to make at the moment.

He added that a full statement would be issued in due course and the company was taking legal advice about the Environment Agency's action.

From the BBC Website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4243446.stm)