Hi there,
Does anyone on here know what the very large white mounds of "god knows what" are on the dock road, they seem to get bigger everytime I drive past.

Cheers,
Mal

Been wondering that myself, there was a mini-JCB playing sandcastles with them the other day.

I wonder if they are load-testing the dockside before development. Some of that dock-side is hollow.

Hi, I believe it is salt.

Wouldn't last long when it rains!

yerr

The docks hold rock salt, chemical fertilizer and the powder that they use in fire extinguishers!! It wont be the fertilizer, but not sure about the others! Do all the work on their machines, the sheds in the docks are full of the stuff, like mountains!

None of those can be left out in the open.

BCF - is a health hazard
Fertilzer would wash into the sea water and so would be illegal.
Salt would dissolve and its possibly illegal to allow that to run into the sea water as well.

It looks like different types of hardcore, they may just be holding it there temporarily for nearby projects, or other thing I can think of is they are load-testing the dock-side prior to building???

Perhaps they are going to part infill the docks for wirral waters project???

Birkenhead Asda site is one big hole in the ground when I looked a couple of days ago, it maybe the hardcore for that???

I wondered that too!

I believe it is were all of the tramps of wallasey go to knock one out.

Well I think that you will find it's B'head not Wallasey!!!

I have strange white mounds - must get meself a spray tan

crack?

I was referring to my womanly mounds

U means your 2 stacks of whites to wash?

The mounds of white stuff are getting bigger, when past this morning and they were big but this evening they were huge I thought thet were salt/ grit for the roads in the bad weather

They are actually unloading salt at the docks! By the thousand tonne load!! they spray it with an oil apparently to preserve it, just supplied the pump to their spec!
Dont know the technicallities.
They had a 13 tonne machine in the hold of a ship with a burst hose last Saturday, had to climb down n do the repair...Trust me IT WAS SALT!!!!

Anyone got a pic?

(and I dont mean of MissyG's mounds - though Im sure I could "try" )

I am going to allow that now am I?

I'll be sleeping in a suit of armour tonight...

Sanchez has some strange white mounds in the corner of his bedroom - his manfat infested socks and tissues