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NRA National Rivers Authority Welsh Region NRA National Rivers Authority Welsh Region Guardians of the Water Environment March 1994 E n v ir o n m e n t Ag e n c y NATIONAL LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICE HEAD OFFICE Rio House, Waterside Drive, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4UD | Notional Rivers Authority |! 'rrnation Centre !. ' od Office No ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Mrfoo No BLfiK 092011 <a£ & ? S C INTRODUCTION The rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters of Wales are subject to large and rapidly increasing demands from the users of water. Many different uses interact, or compete for water or water space, and will inevitably come into conflict with one another. The National Rivers Authority (NRA) was created in 1989 as an independent environmental watchdog. Its prime purpose is to maintain and improve the water environment and regulate the use of water by industry, agriculture and the private water and sewerage companies. The N RA ’s general duties include: Maintenance and improvement of water quality by control of pollution in surface and groundwater. Flood defence for people and property. Flood warning. Management of water resources. Maintenance and improvement of fisheries. Conservation of the natural water environment. Promotion of water based recreation. Navigation (in some rivers). In addition, the NRA has a responsibility to reconcile conflicts between water users and plays a key role in the strategic management of the interaction between users of the water and land environments. We believe it is important that the interests of all water users are considered in the developm ent and protection of the water environment and have consequently chosen to promote our vision and management proposals via published Catchment Management Plans (CMPs). YOUR VIEWS The Tawe and South Gower CM P Consultation Report is our assessment of the catchment and identifies the key issues which need to resolved. These arc outlined in the tables at the end of this summary report. We need your views: • What do you think about the Plan in general? • Have we identified all the uses? • Have we identified all the issues? • What do you think about the options we propose? If you would like to comment on this document, or receive a copy of the full Consultation Report, please write to: THE AREA CATCHMENT PLANNER NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY ELYS AFON, HAWTHORN RISE HAVERFORDWEST, DYFED SA61 2BQ TEL. HAVERFORDW EST (0437) 760081 TAWE AND SOUTH GOWER CATCHMENT AREA ISSUE No: 47 Lack of canoeing access to the Tawe OPTIONS Responsibility Advontages Disadvantages Encourage angling clubs/ NRA/Angling Enhance Possible disturbance riparian owners to allow Clubs/Canoeing recreational to fisheries, canoeing on a limited scale Associations/ potential conservation and and with special conditions Riparian Owners angling interests Possible income for angling clubs 27 ISSUE No: 45 Tawe barroge may impede salmonid migration despite presence of fish pass Options Responsibility Advontoges Disodvontoges Monitor adult salmonid NRA/Swansea Improved Cost: unknown migration through the barrage City Council understanding of by electronic tracking to assess fish pass Resource effectiveness of the fish pass effectiveness implication Identification of remedial requirements Monitor smolt migration NRA/MAFF/ Assurance that the Resource through the barrage to Swansea City barrage does not implication determine any effects on their Council pose an obstruction behaviour to smolts Cost: unknown Identification of remedial opportunities Monitor trap catches at Panteg NRA/Swansea Indicative of Resource Weir. City Council changes in adult implication status Monitor anglers catches by NRA/Angling Indicative of adult Resource Log Book Scheme. Clubs/Swansea salmonid implication City Council catchability ISSUE No: 46 Development of recreational facilities at Fendrod Lake in Swansea OPTIONS Responsibility Advantages Disadvantage Develop a management plan Swansea City Optimise use of Cost: unknown for the lake, balancing the Council resource and safety issues and the potential minimise conflict Safety implications conflict between coarse anglers and jet-skiers CATCHMENT STATISTICS GENERAL Area 272 km-’ Population (1991 Census) 232,1 0 0 Population Density 853/ kn r TOPOGRAPHY Ground Levels Max height 802m A O D Sea Levels (Swansea) Mean High Water Springs 4.5m A O D Mean Low Water Springs -3.9m A O D WATER QUALITY Length of River in 1990 River Quality Survey V ery G ood 16.8km G ood 48.2km Fair none Poor 7.9km Bad none Tawe Estuary G ood 6.2km WATER RESOURCES Annual Average Rainfall 1980m m Primary Gauging Station Tawe at Ynystanglws FLOOD PROTECTION Length of Designated Main River 100.73km Length of River on which Flood Alleviation Schemes implemented 12.59km o f which Hard Defences 0.81km Soft Defences 1 1.78km Length of River covered by a Flood Warning Scheme 34km FISHERIES Average Annual Declared 538 sea trout Rod Catch (1982-1991) 57 salm on 3 THE NRA'S VISION FOR THE TAWE AND SOUTH GOWER CATCHMENT The Tawe and South Gower catchment provides local residents and visitors with a wealth of spectacular scenery and wildlife around the City of Swansea and valley conurbations. In the north, the catchment is almost completely unspoilt, the wild uplands being protected by the umbrella of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The physical nature of the middle and lower reaches of the river has been managed over the years, and regular maintenance to protect people and property from flooding takes place. The historical heavy industrial use of the lower Swansea valley is reflected in the large dock complex, part of which has now been converted into a marina. The river discharges into the dramatic seascape of Swansea Bay, which sweeps around on the western side towards the beautiful Gower peninsula, whose sandy beaches attract thousands of visitors each year. Swansea’s industrial past, and particularly its pre-eminence for metal refining, left a legacy of heavy metal contamination over hundreds of hectares of land, and within the river and Swansea Bay. The reclamation and rehabilitation of these contaminated areas within the lower Swansea valley must be regarded as one of the success stories in the South Wales valleys and, with assistance from the N RA and its predecessors, a significant migratory fishery has become re­ established within the last 15 years. It is perhaps ironic that the latest, and most ambitious, project - the construction of the first tidal barrage in England and Wales, completed in 1992 - is threatening to cause new water quality problems and may be obstructing salmon and sea trout as they return to spawn. The potential problems that this structure presents must now be considered the most demanding of the challenges to be addressed within the life of this Plan. The impact of sewage effluent on water quality in river and sea remains a significant issue. During the life of the Plan, major improvement schemes for Swansea Bay should be completed. Outstanding problems downstream of Trebanos sewage treatment works, together with the more extensive problems caused by unsatisfactory combined sewer overflows (CSOs) throughout the catchment, must be addressed. The success of Dwr Cymru’s second Asset Management Programme (AMP2) in delivering improvements to the most environmentally significant CSO problems, will have a major influence on the N RA ’s aspirations for the catchm ent. Further improvement in the migratory fishery will be dependent upon the N RA being able to secure safe passage past the barrage, control poaching, improve access for migratory fish to obstructed tributaries, and stabilise gravels for spawning. 4 ISSUE No: 43 The presence of coarse fish in the middle and lower reaches of the Tawe Options Responsibility Advantages Disadvantages Monitor the distribution/ NRA Better stock Cost: unknown species composition of coarsc management fish Identification of • control measures Give dispensation to coarse NRA/Coarse Increased Conflict with some anglers with special Anglers utilisation of game anglers conditions: e.g. restricted resource season, catch returns, hook Possible inadvertent sizes exploitation of smolts and/or adult salmonids ISSUE No: 44 Illegal fishing reduces the stock of migratory fish for bona fi< e angling and spawning Options Responsibility Advantages Disadvantages Continue enforcement of N R A /O th er Protects stocks for C o st of legislation in conjunction with enforcement bodies legitimate enforcement other enforcement bodies harvesting and activity spawning Review effectiveness of NRA/SWSFC Protect stocks for Monitoring cost SWSFC and other byelaws legitimate and introduce new proposals harvesting and Effectiveness where necessary spawning uncertain 25 ISSUE No: 41 Development on flood plains and their conflict with flood defence requirements Options Responsibility Advantages Disadvantages Close liaison between NRA N R A /L o cal N o reduction in Cost to developer & Local Authorities to ensure Authorities existing flood protection standards are not protection. compromised Developer pays for any necessary mitigation works rather than the public Keep river banks free from NRA Ensures that Reduction in land development existing defences available for and river can be development maintained at reasonable cost and new defences provided in future ISSUE No: 42 Bankside developments have potential to reduce the conservation value of the river corridor Options Responsibility Advantages Disadvantages Provide protection for NRA/Developers Preservation of Cost to developer minimum of 7m from river conservation
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