Save Llyn Anafon/Aber lake

Let’s try to stop this from carrying on.
Water levels in Llyn Anafon, a small former reservoir on the Carneddau mountains, are being lowered 4.5ft over the next decade to restore it to its “natural” state.

The work is the latest chapter in a saga spanning 16 years which has seen the lake’s water levels ebb and flow as local people fought to preserve their precious retreat. Popular with anglers, picnickers, walkers and mountain bikers, residents in nearby Llanfairfechan now fear it will be left as an unsightly and dangerous “muddy puddle”.

Anglers claim the lake’s resident brown trout will be displaced and there are concerns that otters – which began colonising Llyn Anafon only three years ago – will disappear.

By long held custom people who lived in the villages had the right to fish both the lake and the river.