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Swansea barrage
The Swansea barrage (or the Tawe barrage) is a structure near the mouth of the River Tawe in Swansea, Wales. It was completed in 1992, creating a marina which extended the leisure boat facilities already being offered by the former South Dock.[1]
The barrage structure includes a boat lock, spillway, fish pass and generator turbine. The turbine serves a dual use: acting as a power generator for the National Grid as well as being used to pump water back into the Tawe river system. The barrage has an installed generating capacity of 200kW.[2]
The barrage scheme gave rise to a number of environmental concerns. Fish navigation up the river and dissolved oxygen levels were problems that arose after completion.[3] Salt water that came in at high spring tides sank to the bottom and stayed there, reducing oxygen levels. The Environmental Advice Centre was commissioned to undertake an aeration scheme trial in the Tawe in the summer of 1998. The system was based on a diffuser design and propeller mixer, which proved highly effective at exporting the salt water from the deep area of the trial site and raising dissolved oxygen concentrations at the bed.
Following the success of the trial system, a more extensive system was designed for installation in 1999–2000. The installation was conducted using a diving team to ensure optimal location of the diffusers within the river channel. The installation was expected to treat all the problem areas over a 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long reach of river and ameliorate the poor water quality present in these areas. Monitoring results from the system installed to date have indicated that aeration has effectively raised the oxygen concentration and assisted in the export of saline water from the system. Following the success of the River Tawe aeration scheme, the city of Cardiff used the same method to improve the quality of the water in its newly created bay.
Other fears that arose with the building of the barrage such as the raising of the water table causing ground subsidence problems in the low-lying areas around the River Tawe did not materialize.
^Jean Paul Lagardere; Marie-Laure Begout Anras; Guy Claireaux (31 October 1998). Advances in Invertebrates and Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Fish Telemetry in Europe, Held in LaRochelle, France, 5 - 9 April 1997. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-7923-5211-2.
^"Technology". Tidal Electric. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
^"Spring clean for river". BBC News: Wales. 19 November 1999. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
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