00:03Yeah, sea conditions seem to be more violence, stormy, you know, longer lasting, seem to have a lot more localised
00:10flooding, not just here, but along the coast, along Wisemans Bridge and Roth.
00:14Massive changes over the last couple of years, the climate change has a big effect on the access path to
00:20Sorensfut to Wisemans Bridge, coastal erosion, which has obviously affected the community.
00:25The fishing boats that come in and out of Sorensfut Harbour, you know, they come here and land fish. If
00:31they can't use the harbour for any reason, we lose people with that livelihood as well.
00:36A lot of nature uses the shoreline, the strand line, and as that starts to disappear and, you know, the
00:42sea gets closer to the flood defences, there'll be less space for nature to feed.
00:56Saundersfut has always lived with the sea, but according to a recent climate change risk assessment, we're set to see
01:02up to a metre of sea level rise in the next 75 years.
01:06Also, increased storminess, droughts, potential for wildfire are all increasing. The people that know this coast the best are already
01:15feeling it.
01:15That affects tourism, it affects businesses, it affects the residents having access through Sorensfut, Wisemans Bridge, Copperdor and over to
01:23Amroth.
01:23We're looking at anything we can do now to help achieve better results with that by moving water around to
01:30stop the flooding that we've got.
01:31Clearly, no one can resist climate change and rising sea levels is going to be a huge issue for coastal
01:38communities.
01:39It's a massive disadvantage to the community.
01:42In 2022, Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum worked with 39 different organisations, including the Pembrokeshire County Council, the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park,
01:51Natural Resources Wales and, of course, local communities to pull together the climate adaptation strategy.
01:57Part of the strategy was to help communities to become more resilient.
02:01We've probably got three key risks in this village that, to some degree, all coastal communities will have.
02:08We've got a river coming down into the village and we've got a very high tidal range here.
02:13The danger is that during high tides and in the wrong weather conditions, that will lead to that water backing
02:19up and flooding the lower land behind the seafront.
02:22Secondly, we've got a harbour with a good seawall but waves overtopping that.
02:27Any water will then run back onto the lower land behind.
02:31And then finally, we've got the strand, which is a road along the seafront where each house has got its
02:36own individual bit.
02:38of garden wall that is effectively the seawall.
