Naively, I thought that the work to remediate the damage caused by the mineshaft inundation earlier this year would have coped with yesterday's storm. In fact, dispersing this flood was the task of the council's surface water drainage (SWD) system which was not up to it. Several homes in Dynevor Road, some of which have only just been refurnished, were flooded. There has even been a suggestion that the Coal Authority's remedial works have interfered with the SWD network. Well away from the Skewen mine workings, the roads round Tesco have suffered worse than usual and even Old Road was for a time passable only with difficulty. Whatever, the council is now on notice that it will have to do something about the effects of climate change.
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