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FOLLOW THE PATH between the lake and the river and you soon reach the place where the Calder plunges over Kirkthorpe Weir. There's plenty of water going over today and far less rubbish strewn in the trees than the last time we came this way, a year or two ago.Twenty years ago this stretch of the valley was dominated by spoil heaps and industrial dereliction. A huge and sometimes controversial scheme is using the income generated from landfill to re-claim the site. Originally the full scheme called for the diversion of the river, an idea that has apparently now been shelved.
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