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On 29 August 2023, 200 volunteers gathered at the banks of the Ogmore River to help remove 2,000 tyres from the river bed. This project was coordinated by a local dog walker with the support of 50 different partners/agencies/companies/local individuals. During the clean, 32 trolleys were removed from
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The industrialisation of the valley of the Ogmore by mining and heavy industry severely damaged much of the natural environment of the river. However, there has been an improvement in recent years and it supports a healthy population of aquatic invertebrates. The river does still have some problems
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started returning to the main river and the River Garw in ever-increasing numbers, but continued to avoid the chronically polluted Llynfi. However, even on the Llynfi, native brown trout numbers increased upstream of Tondu, and these were occasionally supplemented by stocked
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