Brofiscin Quarry pollution at Groesfaen to be cleaned

A deal has been reached for a £1.5m clean-up of a polluted quarry. Brofiscin in Groesfaen, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was a dumping ground during the 1960s and 1970s for industrial waste, including solvents, heavy metals and toxic PCBs. Survey work fo

Monsanto, BP and Veolia agree to pay for cleanup of contaminated Welsh site

... by Welsh officials to the Guardian, marks the end of a five-decade-long saga that began when thousands of tonnes of chemical and industrial waste from a Monsanto-owned plant in Newport was dumped at the Brofiscin quarry, near the village of ..