What Do You Do With Six Million Tonnes Of Earth?
Crossrail will produce six million tonnes of earth and spoil, from where they are digging the tunnels, shafts and stations in London. Three-quarters of this are being used to create a new wetland habitat for the RSPB at Wallasea Island, north of Southend in Essex. Read all about it here.
The Anonymous Widower 
How unimaginative. When our Victorian forebears had a similar problem they built brick ovens at Earls Court and made 13 million bricks a day from tunnel spoil. The spoil from the Jubilee Line extension was taken to the old London Brickworks and dumped in the claypits. With joined-up thinking the new stations could have incorporated bricks from the spoil. New wetlands? Arty-farty and airy-fairy , unless of course Joe Public can cull a few geese and ducks. Confit of course, but I think if you make foie gras for just your own consumption you can get around the production ban.
Comment by peter hoskins | January 2, 2012 |