A half-mile section of towpath and canal remains closed while the sediment is being sampled ... "We very often find pollution in the water, not with cyanide, but with other chemicals, cooking ...
Prof Macklin explained that the majority of metals from metal mining is bound up in sediment ... pollution" stored in flood-plains. "A good deal of river monitoring is focused on water when ...
When inspecting the area, the writer stopped counting at 200 pieces of faeces in the water. At times, areas of the dam resembled a fizzy drink as methane gas bubbled to the surface. “The stinky stench ...