Swansea Bay (Welsh: Bae Abertawe) is an inlet of the Bristol Channel lying south of Swansea, Wales. Other places on the bay include Mumbles and Port Talbot. The River Neath and River Tawe flow into the bay. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... The location of the Bristol Channel The Severn Bridge and Bristol Channel, looking northwestward from England towards Wales The Bristol Channel coast at Ilfracombe, North Devon, looking west towards Lee Bay The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from South West... Swansea (Welsh: , mouth of the Tawe) is a city in Wales and a Welsh County. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales forever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779 km² (3rd in... Mumbles village, Wales Mumbles (otherwise The Mumbles – Welsh Y Mwmbwls) is an extremely large village and adjacent headland stretching into Swansea Bay. ... Arms of Port Talbot Port Talbot (Welsh: or Porth Talbot) is an industrial town in the traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, UK, with a population of approximately 50,000. ... River Neath (Afon Nedd in Welsh) is a river in south Wales running south west from its source to its confluence with Swansea Bay below Briton Ferry. ... the River Tawe is a river in south Wales which meets the sea at Swansea (Abertawe in Welsh). ...

Oyster fishing was once an important industry in Swansea Bay, employing 600 people at its height in the 1860s. However, overfishing, disease and pollution had all but wiped out the oyster population by 1920. In 2005 plans were announced to reintroduce the industry. Crassostrea gigas, Marennes-Oléron Crassostrea gigas, Marennes-Oléron Crassostrea gigas, Marennes-Oléron, opened The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of molluscs which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. ... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... A disease or medical condition is an abnormality of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, or death to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ... Water pollution Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On 18th September 2005, the body of a nineteen year old boy was found on the beach. He had beaten and dragged out to sea after being mugged buy three local youths.

Pollution

For the last two decades of the 20th Century, the bay was blighted by pollution, partly from the surrounding heavy industry and partly from sewerage outlets being sited at inadequte locations. Adding to the problem is the natural current flow of the waters in the bay which did not move the polluted waters further out to sea. Efforts have been made by the local authority to reduce the pollution in the bay but care had to be taken to ensure the pollution did not move to the popular beach resorts on the south Gower instead. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

The Sewer outlet out of the bay was made inactive in around 1996. A new outlet was made, extending further out to sea. The sewerage from this outlet is treated by a £90 million treatment plant. It is hoped that Swansea Bay will achieve Blue Flag status sometime in the latter half of the millennium decade.

Power generation

Swansea Bay (along with the rest of the UK) has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world. This offers a potential for electricity generation using tidal lagoons. The bay is set to host the world's first tidal lagoon by approximately 2009.^[1] It will be sited about a mile offshore and will be about 5 square kilometers in size. Tidal Power is the power of electricity generation achieved by capturing the energy contained in moving water mass due to tides. ... 2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In addition to tidal power, construction of an offshore windfarm in the Bay has been approved.^[2] The windfarm will be sited at Scarweather Sands, about three miles off the coast and visible from Porthcawl. Porthcawl is a town of around 16,000 on the south Wales coast in the county borough of Bridgend, traditional county of Glamorgan. ...

References

1. ^ source: http://www.tidalelectric.com/Projects%20UK.htm
2. ^ source: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?ucidparam=20041005181339

External links

• Swansea Bay Official site from South West Wales Tourist Board
• The Swansea Bay partnership
• Visit Swansea Bay
• Forces of Nature: Swansea Bay: Beach Information