Collaborating on strategy to tackle mining pollution

Last week, Rivers Trusts from across Wales met with the Minewater Remediation Authority and Natural Resources Wales to hear about their metal mines strategy which aims to minimise the impact of 129 historical metal mine priority sites in Wales – a major step in tackling approximately 1,300 known sites which currently cause around 700 km of Welsh rivers to fail to achieve ‘Good’ Water Framework Directive (WFD) status.

 We discussed many ideas for partnership working and look forward to assisting the programme with landscape restoration opportunities and nature-based solutions to help tackle the legacy issues from mines and accelerate the delivery of improvements.