TAP News December 2007
Work has started on the action points required to achieve all the permissions and consents by Spring 2008.
The Planning Application has been circulated by Monmouthshire County Council and will hopefully be ready for discussion at the December meeting. A minor delay has occurred due to an out of date document being sent with the application. This has been corrected.
HydroGeneration have updated the feasibility study and confirmed that, provided the predicted flows in the Angiddy are achieved, then the Project is capable of achieving an output of 145000 Kwh of electricity per annum, generating an annual income of £13000 at today's selling prices. The predicted flows used in the assessment were calculated using the Environment Agency LowFlows software package. LowFlows is a hydrological software package that uses rainfall and evapo-transpirational data for the whole of the UK to estimate the annual flow characteristics for a particular site.
Actual flow measurements are now being taken on a regular basis in the Angiddy and these will be used to verify the software predictions. There was unusually low rainfall in the period 18th October to 16th November (24 mm). During this period the flow fluctuated between 146 litres per second and 174 litres per second. In the week following the 16th November, when heavy rainfall was experienced, the flow more than doubled. Fluctuations of this magnitude are expected. From previous data it is estimated by the Environment Agency that the Project could achieve
HydroGeneration have commenced working with the Environment Agency in order to obtain the extraction and impoundment licences for the Project.
Adrian and Elsa Wood of Wye Valley Surveys have had a good response to their request for information about wildlife seen in the Angiddy valley. They are following up each item with personal visits and checking all previous records, in addition to undertaking a full survey of the Angiddy valley.
Neil Phillips of A.P.A.C., having completed a general survey of the ground covered by the Project, will soon be undertaking trial digs in order to evaluate the possibility of currently unknown archaeological items of interest being present.
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