Dear Editor,
On the News earlier , an “expert” stated that to prevent flash flooding in these periods of high rainfall, we should be planting more trees on our hill catchment areas to prevent rapid outflow into streams and rivers.
Therefore , why have Natural Resources Wales [NRW] removed millions of trees from our Welsh hills in recent years, to allow massive wind farms to be built? Their concrete bases and tarmac tracks are clearly contributing to flash flooding downstream.
If 21 gargantuan ,820 ft high wind turbines , are erected at the proposed Bryn Wind Farm site on Mynydd Margam above Maesteg and Port Talbot, there will be undoubted flash flooding of the brook called Ffrwd Wyllt [ Wild Brook!?] which flows from that precise catchment down into Goytre and Tai Bach, Port Talbot.
Check the Ffrwd Wyllt flow now….and imagine what happens when it runs off several square miles of unabsorbent concrete and tarmac !
Yours faithfully,
L J Jenkins,
Clynyrynys,
Gwbert,
Cardigan.
SA431PR
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