General view from top of No. 1 shaft winding tower (from North West) of setting ponds for water pumped out of mine by underground pumps. A steel-framed building clad with sheet alloy (right) houses w ...
SC 376622
Description General view from top of No. 1 shaft winding tower (from North West) of setting ponds for water pumped out of mine by underground pumps. A steel-framed building clad with sheet alloy (right) houses water treatment plant, treated water eventually being pumped into a nearby river.
Catalogue Number SC 376622
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 17668
Scope and Content Settling ponds, Monkton Hall Colliery, Midlothian Monkton Hall Colliery was sunk in 1954-67 and was one of the National Coal Board's five Scottish super-pits. Coal production reached 5,000 tons per day in 1968. Most of the output went to Cockenzie Power Station. It was closed in 1997 and then demolished. Dirty water pumped out of the mine is piped to these settling ponds where the worst of the dust sinks to the bottom. The water then passes through the treatment plant (right) and is drained into the nearby river. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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