Landslides in south Wales leave locals fearing 'another Aberfan' | ITV News

My God, how bad, it's Sunday and the side of a mountain has just collapsed, it crashes into the river that runs through the wrong Vivar, near the tireless town, no one is hurt, but only today the magnitude of that collapse is obvious and something else is clear. is how much coal was still on this side of the mountain Gerald saw it all happen there was a roar and you could see the monkeys on the ramp from the upper area there and in a couple of hours would you like to come down with me do you feel ? vulnerable, yes, yes, with this happening, yes, these valleys are surrounded by corn, they were built on corn, it's a terrifying prospect, you know, if it could have happened on this side, the result will be totally different.

His father, Cliff, is a former miner. He looks at these

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and now what's going through your mind Ohama joins the road, so you know, when I get to town and believe me, you'd want to see that again. I would not do it. I've been talking to people on this street. Brin hey log and they are in front of the

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and they described the sound of mud falling from the mountain as disturbing yesterday and they are just grateful that this happened in front of their houses and not behind them. The greenery of the valleys disguises the amount of coal that is still hidden here in the 70s, 80s and 90s, the land was reclaimed, but now there are calls from local people to inspect all the areas where coal was dumped, we should definitely inspect all the old coal dumps to make sure that if there is excess water there that it is being drained and make sure everything is safe because obviously the people you know have seen the horrible images on the television

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of what happened in life pontic, people may not have seen them themselves, it is much larger than and even appears on television, so people of course worry that it is one thing to have water running through the house and It is quite

another

for the mud and the top of the mountain to come down through the house, but who is responsible, who is the owner of the land, the tail?

The authority says it's not them and the council says they are not sure who is responsible for these sites and who maintains them but a president needs to have a chat with Naturals Wheels please, on the side of the hill is the big one in Rhonda Vark. It is a concern for us, we have engineers on site right now monitoring it, do you think that is your land or natural resources? Wales Land, we asked in a discussion about that, but at the moment we have engineers on site trying to understand if there are any risk properties or the public there is certainly some concern about the movement that occurred yesterday and what caused it is just water on the surface or there is a deeper problem within Moncton that is currently under investigation.

This is what happened after a weekend of heavy rain and these valleys. know their history with landslides well, now some are wondering if this was a one-off or early warning Rob Osborne ITV News