The protection of the Nottinghamshire coalfield by the Bentinck Colliery minewater concentration scheme

Abstract

The paper gives a brief description of the story of pumping arrangements along the South Western border of the Nottinghamshire coalfield. It outlines the size of the water handling problem to protect the Nottinghamshire Area, and the mining and civil works necessary to collect, pump and discharge all of this water. It describes recently closed collieries and their make of water, and details the migration of these quantities through a variety of roadways and goaf areas to the new lodgement facilities to be installed at Bentinck Colliery. Other pumping stations and total makes of water along the South Western Boundary are described to give the full picture of the size of the project to handle approximately fifty million gallons per week.