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Corby & SteelA Brief History
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Roger BraithwaiteDirector
zerozero environment Ltdtel: 01926 62 49 66 fax: 01926 62 49 26
[email protected] www.zeroenvironment.co.uk
East Midlands EP Seminar 8th June 2010
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In the beginning:
• There were navvies• In 1870 they came to build the railway,
and they found ….
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Large depositsof ironstone
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First brickworks
• Turned out millions of bricks and became a major source of employment
• Created lots of large holes• Then the ironstone
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• Had a high phosphorus content – made the raw iron brittle and unsuitable for steel making
• Only 28-32% iron• Subsequently – Lloyd said : “ripping good
stone under twelve feet thick” • Resulted in a lease for 40 years (to 1920)• Initially stone taken off site
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(Mention Cd)
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First iron making in Corby
• 1910• By 1917 3 blast furnaces• Became Stewarts & Lloyds• By 1930 estimated 500 million
tons of ironstone reserves
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Major expansion
• Integrated steel plant – largest in Europe
• Leading tube plant• Replaced works at Bilston,
Clydesdale and North Lincolnshire
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“Now and then a great commercial or industrial undertaking takes hold of the mind of the people and becomes a symbol of enterprise, high courage and progress. Corby, in its particular way, typifies the spirit of industrial resurgence”
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Peak • Most modern ore preparation plant in
Europe• Two coke plants• Over 1 million tons iron• BOS – Electric arc = over million tons• Strip mills and rolling mills• Tube plants• Continuous weld• +++++
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“If the eventual steel closure had a bright side it was that the pollution also ceased with the steelmaking”
“The steel owners were much criticised for building workers’ houses so close to the works” (1945)
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British Steel
• Nationalisation in1967 • Closure announced 1979• Unemployment – disaster on vast
personal scale
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“Courage & Realism”
• No time for time-consuming lethargies of conventional town hall procedures
• Decisive action and for fast, gut reaction decision-making
• Joint Industrial Development Committee (District, County, Commission for New Towns & BS
• 7 chief officers were replaced by 3
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• “All were young and dynamic men in their 30s”
• Council effectively placed executive powers in the hands of their own leadership
• “You don’t get intellectual debates concerning high principle. It is very much plain speaking; straight forward argument”
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• Council staff reduced by 20%• “There was, for example, a severe
restriction on the number of planning and architectural staff, thus reducing the traditional post-war obsession with pre-planning and over-design which I believe to have been two of the major restrictions on creating commercial confidence and stimulating development”
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The new era• “To achieve industrial rejuvenation it is
essential that a Council must control the essential ingredient, land. An early acquisition of land programme must be implemented to the detriment of other resource priorities ….”
• Planning criteria were rapidly reappraised
• …. all of it must go – down to the last pile of rubble
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• Corby District Council, one of the smallest in the country, embarks on one of the biggest land reclamation projects in Europe.
• 270 hectares, £21,000,000
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Environmental Health (March 82)
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“It is understood that as yet no soil analysis has been carried out on the land recently purchased from BSC. When such samples are taken I would be grateful to know of any such results before soil is re-sited should they contain the following:”
List of 28 elements, compounds etc, including any with –
“Carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic properties”
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BSC Report (Nov 1978)
• “A survey of tanker services for treatment disposal within Corby works”
• Related to effluents and sludges disposed of to “toxic ponds” and other settlement ponds etc (there were lots)
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A few quotes:
• Many effluents can’t be disposed of in this manner due to their very high toxicity
• These ponds (toxic ponds only) have a capacity in excess of 20,000,000 gallons
• It is feared that many of the effluents are disposed of incorrectly
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….• BOS PLANT – slurry tank at gas
conditioning plant – high ss, high chlorine, pH 12.8 – volumes unknown
• Settling pond near cooling tower – ditto• COLD DRAW TUBE PLANT - Bonderite
dripping tray at ‘A’ bay – very high sludge, pH 1.4
• Alkali dripping tray at ‘A’ bay – pH 12.6• Oxalate tank at ‘D’ bay- pH 1.2
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….
• DEENE COKE OVENS – Primary pump house for hot and cold liquor sumps – tar, oil, liquor – very high NH3, phenols etc
• Three rich oil tanks and sumps – oil, nathalene, benzole etc
• GALAVANISING PLANT – very high ss, high zinc, high NH3, ph 1.4
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….• GLEBE COKE OVENS – Lime sump near
mother liquor tank, pH 12.1
• Mother liquor tank – high NH3, high Cl, pH 2.2
• Devil liquor – high NH3, high Cl
• Benzole plant sump – sludge, oil, water, benzole
• Seepage at the side of lime sump – very high NH3, acidic (pH 1,7), high Cl. NB this liquor is dissolving the walls of the lime sump at a very fast rate.
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• MISCELLANEOUS – Gas condensate catch pots, around 150 to 160 – high NH3, CN and phenol etc, VERY TOXIC. About 4,000 gallons / day
• Tar tanks at base of two gas holders – oil-water emulsion, tar, toxic material, VERY TOXIC. About 14,000 gallons / m
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And so on ……….