{"id":723284,"date":"2026-08-01T19:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723284\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:47:14","slug":"first-minister-visits-gwaelod-y-garth-after-quarry-blast-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723284\/","title":{"rendered":"First minister visits Gwaelod-y-Garth after quarry blast flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1j1wyy7e39o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1j1wyy7e39o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huge amounts of water&#8221; <\/a>started rushing down the hillside with reports of water 5ft (1.5m) deep flooding some homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Main Road in Gwaelod-y-Garth and Heol Goch between Gwaelod-y-Garth and Pentyrch had to be closed for clean-up operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Highways and cleaning staff have been working on-site to clear the roads and remove debris, said Cardiff council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, significant damage has been caused to roads, it said, with mud, silt, debris and other obstructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overnight accommodation was arranged for one family on Thursday, with support also provided to a second family on Friday, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Huge amounts of water&#8221; started rushing down the hillside with reports of water 5ft (1.5m) deep flooding some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}