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Of late, time has had to be diverted away from matters Rattlechain and everything else, including rescuing birds due to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council’s clandestine cull of Canada geese. No sooner were Rhodia supposedly trying to prevent any more birds … Continue reading →

  There has been of late very little activity at Rattlechain lagoon. Certainly the birds appear to have deserted the site almost entirely. This makes the “environmental improvements” touted by those undertaking work at the site which commenced nearly two … Continue reading →

    There has been much rot written and broadcast about remembering the 1st world war, for some reason due to the roundness of the year 100.  The start of the hostilities between a group of aristocrats belonging to the … Continue reading →

For this article I am indebted to information from Roy Martin, canal enthusiast. One of the most prominent features of the Birmingham Canal Navigations on which much of the local industry including that at Rattlechain “prospered” is The Netherton Tunnel. … Continue reading →

For one last time– Let’s open door 24.     And so the toxic legacy of Albright and Wilson persists. These two toxic santas went down the chimney and landed in the lake of fire. Rattlechain lagoon is just one … Continue reading →

Let’s open door 23 The closure plan for the rattlechain lagoon was accepted by the Environment agency, where in a freedom of information request it was revealed that the company name had now changed to “Rhodia Limited” from Rhodia UK … Continue reading →

Let’s open door 22 The 2013 cover up works involved levelling the sediment, reconstructing the North and East embankments and then overlaying this below water with a “geotextile membrane”, a sort of permeable plastic sheet with a life of an alleged … Continue reading →

Let’s open door 21   The cover up works? In order to fulfil their closure plan for the site, Rhodia hired consultants ERM to undertake an “improvement works”  in 2013- all without really admitting that all the rubbish they had … Continue reading →

Let’s open door 20     A “Mere” cat sitting on a waste discharge pipe. With bird deaths, fires, and our decisive Freedom of information requests revealing unpublished information of concern, people on the Callaghan Drive estate were concerned at what they … Continue reading →

Let’s open door 19   Rhodia removed barrels  in May 2009, which they had added to the lake supposedly to deter swans from landing. On 25/5/09 on a very hot bank holiday Monday they inexplicably caught fire needing the attendance … Continue reading →