Welsh wind turbines will mean more floods

8:52am Monday 6th August 2007

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SIR - Do readers realise that many of the rivers that flooded English towns and cities like Ludlow, Worcester and Gloucester have their sources in the hills of mid-Wales?

The Severn which flows through Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester emanates from the hills of Plynlimon, east of Aberystwyth.

So does the Wye, which flows through Hereford.

The Teme, which flooded Ludlow and joins the Severn at Worcester, is born in the hills south of Newtown, Powys.

Do readers also realise that there are Welsh Assembly Government proposals to erect hundreds of 400 feet high wind turbines for miles across these same Welsh hills?

Each massive turbine will have a huge concrete platform below it .

The turbines will also be served by many miles of metalled roads, all replacing highly absorbent peat, which currently acts like a sponge.

Therefore, the rate of run-off of water from these high rainfall hills into the Severn, Wye, Teme and many other English' rivers, will be vastly increased, causing far more flash- floods downstream in England in future. The long-suffering residents of these English towns and cities should write to Jane Davidson AM, Welsh Assembly, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff and to Powys County Council at Llandrindod Wells, Powys, to express their concerns at plans that will obviously greatly exacerbate their flooding problems in future.

To have a taste of what they intend to do to the catchment areas of these mighty rivers, see www.visitwalesnow.org.uk LYN JENKINS, Cardigan, Wales.