£200k bill to keep an eye on pond scheme costs

An aerial view of the proposed new pond and waterways at The British, Talywaun, Pontypool Torfaen County Borough Council

- TWM OWEN AND CONOR GOGARTY

Welsh council is set to spend almost £200,000 on project managers to keep down the cost of a scheme for a new pond at an industrial wasteland.

Two watercourses running across the Torfaen site which is known as The British will be redirected to make a pond for holding water as part of the land reclamation.

The attenuation pond is needed to control the amount of water that runs through an existing culvert assessed as unable to cope with a once-in-a-century storm. The project, led by Torfaen council, is the first phase of a planned redevelopment of the former ironworks and mine.