Major funds to prevent spills from former landfill site

MILLIONS of pounds have been set aside to manage the risk of harmful contaminated waste and water flooding out of a former landfill site on Anglesey.

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Councillors have been told there is a risk a culvert could completely collapse at the former site at Penhesgyn, which would require major work to mitigate a “flood of toxic water” spilling from the site.

The culvert has already partially collapsed and a report stated that while there was “uncertainty” about whether the culvert would collapse further, “there is still a risk that it might”.

A solution for the situation would be “difficult to estimate.”