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Once a waste product, fly ash from coal fired power stations is now used by several industries. It is stored here prior to being carried away. Picture shows the deposits being quarried and sprinklers for keeping the ash wet (possibly to prevent it turning to a hard stone). Further west in NT3473 and NT3573, the ash has been dumped forming new land, some of which is a nature reserve.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Ash from coal fired power stations was a waste product to be dumped. A new area of land was made near Musselburgh through dumping ash, some of which is now a nature reserve. Now ash is no longer waste. It is used in a variety of industries like agriculture, carpet making and road building. Here ash from Cockenzie power station is being carried away after being dug from a lagoon. Sprinklers keep the ash moist until its carried away.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Westpans, so called because of the busy salt panning which took place there, west of Salt Preston. (Prestonpans)
©james denham
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Either side of the road up to Drummohr.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>Heavy digging equipment can be seen every weekday on the Musselburgh-Prestonpans Road, carrying away unwanted debris from the ash lagoons.
©Renata Edge
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across a inactive ash lagoon, with Cockenzie Power Station in the distance. The crow looks out of place in this moonscape, but birds feel safe on the lagoons, as mammals can't get to them.
©Renata Edge
Dist:0.4km<br/>Another lucky shot of low cloud on the ash lagoon, with Cockenzie Power Station's chimneys just visible in the distance.
©Renata Edge
Dist:0.4km<br/>The sea wall protecting the ash lagoons built on the site of Musselburgh Sands.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>Old railway stock at the western entrance to the industrial museum.
©kim traynor
Dist:0.5km<br/>Old railway stock at the western entrance to the industrial museum.
©kim traynor
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©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>The hide overlooks ponds built on land reclaimed from coal ash waste from the Cockenzie power station (1200 MW) in the background. The ducks were wigeon and teal.
©Jim Barton

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