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Power surges and electricity cuts caused by the lighting strikes in recent weeks have caused problems with the cill gates at Burry Port Harbour. The short power cuts householders have been experiencing between Burry Port and Kidwelly sometimes several times a day have been causing the cill gates retaining water in the marina to rise in safety mode. This prevent vessels leaving on the tide. Carmarthenshire coastal manager Rory Dickinson said: “Every time this happens we have to visit the control room and reset the system to get it operating again. “It is similar, but a little more complicated than trip switches on a domestic supply. “There was a power cut last Tuesday following which the cill working mechanism could not be reset. “Specialists were called in and found the three of the cill gate’s sensors had blown simultaneously.” “The sensors were new and the specialist thought it was too much of a coincidence for the problems to be anything other than electrical storm related.” The s...

Coastal protection works around Llanelli Millennium Coastal Park carried out in recent years withstood this week’s battering from combination of high winds and high tides. Park manager Rory Dickinson said a great deal of sea borne debris was thrown up on cycle path at two areas, one in Burry Port and the other at Bynea. Millennium Coastal park rangers were engaged in clearing the paths. Large rocks were thrown on to the cycle path but the £160,000 storm surge defences that were put in place in recent years at both locations withstood the elements. Because of the numbers of rocks and flotsam cast on shore and predominantly on the cycle and footpaths where it runs near the high tide mark, the coastguard took the precaution of closing the cycle path in part late on Wednesday at Burry Port. It was opened Thursday morning with no further tidal or storm surge threats imminent. There is little evidence of undercutting although huge volumes of sand were shifted along the spit on the e...