A stream cuts through this part of the coal tip down to the school.
Taken from Philip Thomas who publishes the Facebook pages relating to Clear South Wales Coal Tips, there are a number of videos on the site relating to coal tips just use the link.
A view from the middle of the high-risk tips in #Ynyshir, #RhonddaFach, looking down to the valley floor and #YnyshirCommunitySchool.
A stream cuts through this part of the tip down to the school.
The tip area is not subject to any proactive maintenance.
A proposal to safeguard this stream cutting with a steel-reinforced concrete gabion channel was put forward in 1974. This never happened.
The land was sold by the national coal board in 1989 for a peppercorn fee and the stream-coal tip issue was seemingly forgotten.
The stream cuts through the coal spoil!
The same stream as it meets the bottom of Llanwynno Road by #YnyshirJuniorSchool in March 2020. The culvert should take all of this water underground toward the Afon Rhondda Fach. This stream cuts through the coal spoil! What if some of it joins the water run-off too?
(and the attention required in the morning – not when it was happening and the risk of flooding was highest)
