Flood in Skewen 14:27 - Jan 21 with 1031 views | controversial_jack | Apparently, an old coal mine has bust it's banks and flooded out Dynevor Road and Goshen Park. Looks quite bad too | | | | |
Flood in Skewen on 15:02 - Jan 21 with 1001 views | Boundy | Probably the old workings of No 3 & 4 main collieries which lie between Drummau road and Dynevor road and beyond , I'd hazard a guess and say the very recent rain fall off the mountain has made a contribution , | |
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Flood in Skewen on 16:33 - Jan 21 with 949 views | controversial_jack |
Flood in Skewen on 15:02 - Jan 21 by Boundy | Probably the old workings of No 3 & 4 main collieries which lie between Drummau road and Dynevor road and beyond , I'd hazard a guess and say the very recent rain fall off the mountain has made a contribution , |
Yes, no sign of it stopping and it's getting worse. homes abandoned | | | |
Flood in Skewen on 05:47 - Jan 23 with 779 views | Highjack |
Flood in Skewen on 15:02 - Jan 21 by Boundy | Probably the old workings of No 3 & 4 main collieries which lie between Drummau road and Dynevor road and beyond , I'd hazard a guess and say the very recent rain fall off the mountain has made a contribution , |
In the last few years they’ve cut down all the trees up on Drummau, think it’s because of some disease. I wonder if this has had an effect on the amount of water pouring down to skewen as well? | |
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Flood in Skewen on 14:13 - Jan 23 with 727 views | Catullus |
Flood in Skewen on 05:47 - Jan 23 by Highjack | In the last few years they’ve cut down all the trees up on Drummau, think it’s because of some disease. I wonder if this has had an effect on the amount of water pouring down to skewen as well? |
We'd noticed all the trees being cut, we were worried that if all the roots died back and the soil lloosened there'd be a chance of a landslip/mudslide? The officla report does say an old mine works has collapsed with all the water probably the cause. My wife was talking to someone whose mother lives down there, she's 80 and the daughter is worried it'll kill her mum. The house iss ruined but the mother refuses to move. Her daughter has asked her to move in with her but the elderly can be very stubborn! | |
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Flood in Skewen on 14:22 - Jan 23 with 716 views | controversial_jack |
Flood in Skewen on 14:13 - Jan 23 by Catullus | We'd noticed all the trees being cut, we were worried that if all the roots died back and the soil lloosened there'd be a chance of a landslip/mudslide? The officla report does say an old mine works has collapsed with all the water probably the cause. My wife was talking to someone whose mother lives down there, she's 80 and the daughter is worried it'll kill her mum. The house iss ruined but the mother refuses to move. Her daughter has asked her to move in with her but the elderly can be very stubborn! |
The tree cutting was well away from the incident, but who knows | | | |
Flood in Skewen on 14:26 - Jan 23 with 710 views | Highjack |
Flood in Skewen on 14:22 - Jan 23 by controversial_jack | The tree cutting was well away from the incident, but who knows |
Aye but there are a lot of mines in them thar hills and no doubt a lot of them will be connected. That excess water coming off that hill has got to go somewhere. | |
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Flood in Skewen on 13:31 - Jan 24 with 618 views | Flashberryjack |
Flood in Skewen on 05:47 - Jan 23 by Highjack | In the last few years they’ve cut down all the trees up on Drummau, think it’s because of some disease. I wonder if this has had an effect on the amount of water pouring down to skewen as well? |
Trees drink water, so obviously it would of have had some affect on the water table, locally. I don't know how many new builds are in that area, but this also has a huge impact on flooding, and usually when flood preventative measures take place in one area, it inevitably causes problems in other areas. | |
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Flood in Skewen on 14:06 - Jan 24 with 599 views | Highjack |
Flood in Skewen on 13:31 - Jan 24 by Flashberryjack | Trees drink water, so obviously it would of have had some affect on the water table, locally. I don't know how many new builds are in that area, but this also has a huge impact on flooding, and usually when flood preventative measures take place in one area, it inevitably causes problems in other areas. |
Yes it’s not just the absorption though, those trees are also a physical barrier, the water will be caught up in the canopy and will drip down slower reducing the volume of water travelling down in one go. It’s complete guesswork of course but it’s a coincidence that mine has been there for a long long time and coped with the large amounts of water we get every year, then they cut down the trees above it and it gets overwhelmed and bursts. | |
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Flood in Skewen on 21:16 - Jan 24 with 554 views | Boundy | We're inundated with old mine workings , in Birchgrove where the new costa drive through and new coastal housing on the site of Williams farm has been built, the contractors had a lot of problems trying to control / divert the water run off from Drummau which has a mine shaft below. It'll be interesting to see how the additional surface will be dealt with the area is now concreted over with very little natural soak aways left having been built over . The reason why there was so many objections to a housing estate being built on the old Stradey Park was because of the loss of natural drainage. Paving and the size of the gardens in new builds seems to have created a problem . | |
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