2. Former Steelworks Ebbw Vale
• The Site
• Constraints
• Site History
• Mining
• Contamination
• Mine Entries
• River Culvert
• Basements
• Reclamation
• The Works
4. Key Areas of Constraint
• Ground Conditions including mining and contamination
• Drainage including ground and surface water
• Basements and Tunnels
• Walls, slopes and ground levels
• Existing infrastructure, including highways and services
• Landscape/Biodiversity
6. Site History
Past uses include:
• Steel/Ironworks
• Plating/galvanising
works
• Coal Mining
• Gas works
• Coking Ovens
• Rail sidings
• Stores
• Offices
7. Mining Setting
• Lower Pentre
• Soap coal seam (Eighteen Inch)
• Black Pins/Coronation Coal (Gorllwyn Rider)
• Black Pins Mine Ground (Ironstone) (Cefn Coed Marine Band)
• Two Feet Nine
• Elled coal seam (Upper Four Feet)
• Big Vein coal seam (Lower Four Feet)
• Threequarter coal seam (Upper Six Feet)
• Gough’s Mine Ironstone
• Black coal seam (Upper Nine Feet)
• Upper Meadow Vein or Upper Engine coal seam (Yard)
• Gwar y Cae coal seam (Seven Feet)
• Old coal seam (Five Feet /Gellideg)
• Spotted Vein Ironstone
• Red Vein Ironstone
9. Contamination
• Site investigation has identified a series
of contamination ‘hot spots’ throughout
the site.
• In particular these relate to elevated
metals and hydrocarbon contamination.
16. Mine Entries
• On basis of The Coal Authority and
initial investigations 5 mine adits
and 14 mine shafts are recorded at the
site
No 22 Pit
No 19 Pit
No 15 Pit HouseNo 4 Pumping Pit House
