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Lots of inaccuracies in this article, for a start the clay waste suspension in the river is NOT, and hasn't been for some 50 years, waste from the kaolin extraction industry, because to start with, very little other than primary screening and thickening takes place on the nearby blackpool quarry site. This produces mostly water which is not fed into the river but is actually re-used. What ends up in the river most often comes from broken and leaking pipes, as well as storm water running off recent tipping and excavations.
The river is actually called the river vinnick, and the Gover valley section is one of it's two main tributaries. There aren't, as far as I know, settling tanks for the river. There is however a section of the river that was dammed off and widened for the purpose of settling out any particles in suspension. This area is known as "gover catch pit" and is not regularly dredged. Ironically dredging it would most likely cause a great deal of sedimentary disturbance, and would as a result pollute the river, causing it to run white.
At any rate something needs to be done, maybe merging this article into the "St Austell River" article under a section on the tributaries, and then moving the combined article to the new name "River Vinnick", where some of the inaccuracies can be corrected. I'll get round to it when I have time but meanwhile I'm open to suggestions. --▫Bad▫harlick♠03:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
