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Fairbourne is built on a natural flood plain, contending with the sea, a river estuary, water flowing off neighboring hillsides and the prospect of rising groundwater.

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Low-lying Fairbourne in Gwynedd, Wales, faces the very real risk of flooding from the sea, a nearby estuary and a river descending from the hills and over the next 30 years could become uninhabitable.

Low-lying Fairbourne faces the risk of flooding from three different places: the sea, an estuary close by, and river that descends from the hills.

They point out that Fairbourne hasn’t flooded since the 1920s, not even in recent storms which caused extensive damage across the north of Wales.