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	The cost of the Cardiff Bay barrage \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		Four years after the barrage finally blocked the mouth of the bay where the rivers Taff and Ely enter the Bristol Channel, there is little evidence that it has directly attracted any business or created any job.
		A little later, he announced out of the blue that a barrage would be built - leaving the mudflats beneath a 400-acre lake - to provide a neat, attractive centrepiece for regeneration and redevelopment.
		The barrage was completed in 2001, but none of the companies that relocated to Cardiff Bay has ever publicly acknowledged the pulling power of the construction.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /wales/story/0,,1383456,00.html (1118 words)

	Cardiff Wales
		The Barrage was constructed downstream of the confluence of the River Taff and the River Ely within the tidal range of the Severn Estuary.
		The common mouth of the Taff and Ely rivers is located in the lower middle of the Severn Estuary, and the Cardiff Barrage is in the lower portion of the tidal range of the rivers.
		The barrage that was constructed to separate the freshwater impoundment from the Severn Estuary is an 800 m long embankment constructed from sand and rock along with a 300 m long concrete section containing the locks, sluices, bridges, fish passage facilities and control building.
	www.petitcodiac.com /cardiffwales-e.htm (3022 words)

	Cardiff Barrage
		Visitors are not allowed to walk along the barrage from Penarth to Cardiff Bay but there is a land train available.
		The lake extends 13km along the waterfront of Cardiff bay.
		The barrage comprises of a 800m embankment of rock and sand.
	www.geocities.com /colinswalesuk/barrage.html (145 words)

	Cardiff Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		Cardiff was proclaimed capital of Wales in 1955, and is Europe's youngest capital city.
		Cardiff Bay Barrage has been built across the rivers Taff and Ely, to create a 500-acre freshwater lake to provide moorings for 200 yachts, the barrage spans the entire mouth of the bay and provides a picturesque waterfront.
		Cardiff Castle is built on the foundations of a Roman fort, later additions were made in Norman times, and the moat and keep still survive today.
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/cardiff.asp (1566 words)

	Welsh Icons - Cardiff
		Cardiff was made a city in 1905 and proclaimed capital of Wales in 1955.
		Cardiff's port, known as Tiger Bay, was once one of the busiest ports in the world and - for some time - the world's most important coal port.
		Cardiff's centre is a particularly green one with Bute Park, formally the castle grounds, extending northwards from the top of the Cardiff's main shopping street (Queen Street); when combined with the adjacent Llandaff Fields to the northwest it produces a massive open space skirting the river Taff.
	www.welshicons.org.uk /html/cardiff.html (1080 words)

	Cardiff
		Cardiff has undergone redevelopment in recent years, the dockland area been one of the areas and is well worth visiting, there are modern, trendy bars and public attractions.
		Cardiff Castle is situated in the centre of the city; the interior and the baroque door were designed by William Burgess.
		The barrage is across the Ely and Taff estuaries a large mud flat was transformed into a freshwater lake but wading birds have had to find new feeding grounds now.
	www.walesdot.co.uk /Cardiff.html (451 words)

	Cardiff Bay Barrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of a barrage was first suggested in the 1980s as a way to help regenerate Cardiff's largely disused docklands.
		The government established the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation to build the barrage, and to redevelop the area as a whole.
		In 2000 the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was dissolved, and the Welsh Assembly awarded a contract to Cardiff County Council to manage the barrage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cardiff_Barrage (511 words)

	Cardiff Wales Capital City
		Cardiff was made a city in 1905 and 50 years later it was proclaimed capital of Wales on December 20, 1955.
		Cardiff's port, known as Tiger Bay, was once one of the busiest ports in the world.
		At the 2001 census, the population of Cardiff was recorded as 305,340.
	www.walesonline.com /info/places/cardiff.shtml (568 words)

	Cardiff Bay
		As Cardiff exports grew, so did its population; dockworkers and sailors from across the world settled in neighbourhoods close to the docks, known as Tiger Bay, and communities from up to 45 different nationalities, including Norwegian, Somalian, Yemenese, Spanish, Italian, Caribbean and Irish, helped create the unique multi-cultural character of the area.
		After the second world war the coal industry declined and the docklands fell into disuse, but in 1999 new life was given to the area with the construction of the Cardiff Bay Barrage, which transformed an area of tidal mudflats into a 200 hectare freshwater lake and sparked the development of the surrounding area.
		Cardiff Bay, just a mile from the city centre, is now popular part of any visit to Cardiff.
	www.visitcardiff.com /About-Cardiff/Cardiff-Bay.html (519 words)

	edie news centre - Environmental alarm bells sound over Cardiff Bay Barrage contract award
		Cardiff Bay Barrage, when finished, will be a 200 ha freshwater lake created by impounding water at the mouth of the Taff and Ely rivers.
		The Barrage has consistently been seen by Environment Agency Wales as an environmental risk (see related story) and this latest decision, announced in the Welsh Assembly on 7 December, has increased fears.
		The Barrage is currently filled with salt water and Michael's announcement that Cardiff City Council will manage the Barrage coincided with his decision to delay freshwater impoundment until March 2001.
	www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=2082 (756 words)

	U.K. – Cardiff Bay Barrage
		Dredging and sandfill for the construction of Cardiff Bay Barrage.
		The Cardiff Bay Barrage is one of the largest investment and engineering project undertaken in the U.K. The 1.1km Barrage impounds the rivers Taff and Ely, creating a 500-acre freshwater lagoon with a new permanent waterfront of 12.8km.
		In January 1995 the Bigg Boss continued the dredging operation on the Barrage’s main embankment, working its way southwards to where the closure cill for the Barrage was situated.
	www.deme.be /projects/uk_cardiffbay.html (366 words)

	BBC News \| Wales \| Barrage gates open for Cardiff's new look
		Cardiff is waking up to a new waterfront as the multi million pound Cardiff Bay Barrage enters its penultimate stage.
		Cardiff West MP Rhodri Morgan was one of the most vociferous campaigners against the project, speaking at a public rally against the scheme at the headquarters of the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation.
		The 1km barrage stretches across the waterfront from the docks to Penarth at the confluence of the rivers Taff and Ely.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/503972.stm (415 words)

	cover story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cardiff Bay is facing a barrage of criticism as Wales asks if the hundreds of millions spent on it so far are just a drop in the ocean.
		But whatever the problems, the barrage has been central to the redevelopment plans of the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (CBDC) since it was set up by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1987.
		But Huw Thomas, reader in the department of city and regional planning at Cardiff University, says we are all in the dark about the benefits of the development as a whole, never mind the barrage.
	www.newstartmag.co.uk /cardiff.html (1159 words)

	Cardiff the capital of Wales by Campaign Audio Design
		Cardiff only really began to grow in prosperity with the onset of the industrial revolution (from the late 18th century onwards) as a major port shipping iron ore and coal mined in the Welsh valleys to the north.
		As a consequence Cardiff is considered to have one of the most beautiful civic centre in Britain and probably the world.
		Cardiff became the capital of Wales on December 20th, 1955.
	freespace.virgin.net /cad.cables/cardiff.htm (647 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Release: Labour's Day of Wildlife Shame as Cardiff Barrage Closes
		Although Labour promised to abandon the Barrage when in opposition, the development was allowed to continue by Ron Davies - then Welsh Secretary - when Labour swept to power in 1997 [1].
		The Barrage's closure comes just weeks before the Government is expected to announce tougher protection for wildlife sites.
		However,it was excluded from the SPA by the UK Government to allow the barrage to be built.
	www.foe.co.uk /resource/press_releases/19991104000134.html (380 words)

	Cardiff - Capital of Wales Travel Guide and Holiday Cottages
		Cardiff is twinned with Hordaland in Norway, Nantes in France, Lugansk in the Ukraine, Stuttgart in Germany and Xiamen in China.
		Cardiff was one of the most prosperous places on Earth during the industrial revolution.
		Cardiff is home to the Spillers, the world's oldest record shop and this tiny shop with racks of photocopied album covers somehow still survives.
	www.welshholidaycottages.com /wales/places-cardiff.htm (870 words)

	Cardiff Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the regeneration area created by the Cardiff Barrage which impounded two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a new freshwater lake around the former dockland area south of the city centre of Cardiff in south Wales
		The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was created in 1987 to stimulate the redevelopment of the run down area.
		Despite opposition by environmentalists and wildlife organisations, the mud flats at the mouths of the River Taff and River Ely were inundated, with loss of habitat for wading birds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cardiff_Bay (827 words)

	Society \| Dam nuisance
		The Cardiff Bay barrage, which turned 400 acres of Tiger Bay into a lake, cost £200m to build and now costs almost £20m a year to run.
		Even if every job that has been created in the bay area can be attributed to the barrage, there is still a shortfall of more than 10,000 jobs.
		Cardiff now has a regenerated bay area with a magnificent new Millennium Centre, shops and restaurants and pubs as good as any.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5095683-111982,00.html (1083 words)

	Railways (Railroads) in Cardiff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cardiff Bay station is reached via a short spur from Cardiff Queen Street with a journey time of three minutes, and has a 15 minute service frequency at 12, 27, 42 and 57 minutes past the hour between 6.42am and 11.41pm Monday to Saturday.
		The Cardiff Bay area has been developed as a waterfront park with leisure, residential and light-industrial complexes on reclaimed derelict dockland, and is the start of the Taff Trail which can be followed as far as Brecon, 57 miles away.
		A short distance away is 'The Tube' - a cigar-shaped structure which houses the Cardiff Bay visitors' centre, and was the base for the Spirit of Cardiff, a powerboat which attempted the fastest circumnavigation of the world in 2002.
	users.aol.com /WalesRails/c.htm (1728 words)

	Civil Engineering Category - The Cardiff Bay Barrage - South Wales - The Concrete Centre
		The barrage is a structure 0.7 miles long from Penarth Head in the southwest to Queen Alexandra Head in the north-east.
		The concrete structures are at the south-west end of the barrage and comprise: three locks and their associated bascule bridges to maintain access across the barrage; five sluices; a fish pass; an outer harbour formed by two breakwaters; and an island upon which sits a control building and gantry crane to service the sluices.
		The Barrage with its embankment, complex arrangement of locks, sluices, fish pass, breakwaters and control building has created a huge freshwater lake and is contributing to the regeneration of Cardiff Bay and Docks.
	www.concretecentre.com /main.asp?page=633 (812 words)

	Valley Lines services in the Rhymney Valley and the Coast between Penarth and Barry Island
		Valley Lines is based at Brunel House, Cardiff and operates five principal routes radiating from Cardiff; two suburban services serving the north and west of the city; and a short spur serving Cardiff Bay.
		Cardiff and Pontypridd; the Rhymney branch, and the coastal route to Penarth/Barry Island
		In Cardiff is the Coryton branch with stations in the northern suburbs, and City Line, which serves the western suburbs; while a short spur from Cardiff Queen Street station links with Cardiff Bay.
	www.hometown.aol.com /WalesRails/crcco.htm (5366 words)

	Cardiff Directory - Welcome
		In recent years Cardiff Bay has undergone massive regeneration due to the construction of the Cardiff Barrage, which has dramatically lowered the flood-risk to the surrounding area.
		Historically Cardiff grew from humble roots to become a bustling port, which transported coal from the Welsh mines to the rest of the world during the upsurge of industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		In 1905 Edward VII gave Cardiff it's city status and later, in the 50's, it was bestowed with the honour of being the country's capital (Wales that is), so 2005 is doubly momentous.
	www.cardiffdirectory.co.uk (335 words)

	BBC - South East Wales Coast - Wetlands and the barrage
		The building of the barrage to create a 'freshwater lake' was a key element in the plans to redevelop Cardiff Bay.
		The barrage serves to dam the mouth of the rivers Taff and Ely resulting in a 200 hectare freshwater lake and providing 13km of waterfront.
		Although very attractive there was a lot of resistance to the plans from householders who feared the barrage would raise the natural level of water in Cardiff and result in flooded homes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/sites/coast/pages/6.shtml (411 words)

	Press release details
		Cardiff’s Golden Jubilee celebrations are set to be an outstanding success with huge public demand to be part of the City’s celebrations.
		Cardiff Council has planned a unique range of additional events throughout the Jubilee holiday to ensure there is something for everyone.
		Cardiff Harbour Authority will be offering guided tours of the barrage and waterways with walks starting from the Barrage information point at 12 noon, 2pm & 4pm each day.
	www.cardiffcastle.com /present/pressreleases/castle_details.asp?rec=985 (629 words)

	Cardiff South Constituency information - Alun Michael MP
		In the early part of the twentieth century, Cardiff was the biggest coal exporting port in the world.
		The regeneration of south Cardiff has been spectacular, with the creation of a freshwater lake by the Cardiff Bay Barrage, the building of Wales’; first five-star hotel, and the creation of the cosmopolitan Mermaid Quay café quarter.
		The basis of the regeneration was the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill for which Alun Michael campaigned for eight years.
	www.alunmichael.com /pages/constituency/cardiff_south.html (339 words)

	Cardiff Bay Barrage, docks and Tiger Bay, Cardiff, south Wales
		The Cardiff Bay Barrage lies across the mouth of Cardiff Bay and was built at a cost of £220m to convert the mudflats into a 200-hectare freshwater lake.
		Designed to keep the sea out and provide a tourist-attracting fresh water lake and marina, the barrage was created to fix the 'problem' of the bay's huge tidal range, grabbing the output of the River Taff and River Ely to create a 2km² (500 acre) freshwater lake.
		Being part of the Bristol Channel - which boasts the second largest tidal range in the world - meant that for half the day the bay would be bereft of water, exposing a large vista of unappealing mudflats.
	www.urban75.org /photos/wales/cardiff-barrage.html (244 words)

	BBC News \| Wales \| Final step for Cardiff Bay Barrage
		Water has begun to be pumped into the lake bed created by the £197m Cardiff Barrage - the jewel in the crown of the vast regeneration scheme.
		By 1987, Cardiff was fronted by thousands of acres of industrial wasteland.
		He voiced the fears of many Cardiff people that the barrage would raise groundwater levels across the city and would lead to a flooding danger.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/503837.stm (573 words)

	Hydrokit \| CITY OF CARDIFF, CARDIFF BAY BARRAGE PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Cardiff Bay Barrage Scheme involved the construction of a tidal barrage across the mouth of the Rivers Taff-Ely estuary.
		A freshwater lake was created on the landward side of the barrage from the impounded waters from the rivers.
		The County Councils Drainage Services, retained under a Service Level Agreement by the Harbour Authority, have responsibility for the downloading, verification and storage of the data from the electronic loggers, and the general maintenance of the groundwater monitoring system.
	www.hydrokit.co.uk /casestudy.php (452 words)

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