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Pontnewynydd Springs, Pont Newynydd Rising, Bakery Springs


NGR: SO 2745 0190
120 m.asl

Torfaen , Northern Outcrop - East (Morlais to Abergavenny)
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Rising Cave
Access By a block of flats on a river bank at Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, inside a pump house.
Description Large resurgence with constant flow used by Welsh Water as a supply. Water issues from pebble bed by the side of Afon Lwyd.
History Geological report in 1966 concluded a source to the west...
Hydrology Yield recorded from Feb-Aug 1966 as from 352000-667000 gpd [.019-.035 cumec] Tests
Conservation
Survey
References
BGS [borehole] record of spring, 1966
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