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Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd; colloquially "The Bay") is an area and freshwater lake [1] [2] in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary , it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely .
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The Cardiff Bay Barrage between Penarth Head and Grangetown was completed in 1999 and came into operation shortly afterwards. The impounding of the River Taff and River Ely has created 220.35 ha (544.5 acres) of freshwater lake in the Cardiff Bay. The promised pedestrian and cyclist short cut to Cardiff across the barrage finally opened to the ...
Aerial view of Cardiff Bay area (early 2000s); Bute East Dock in the background, the Bay and Roath Basin in the foreground There are many listed buildings in Cardiff Bay, part of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. A listed building is one considered to be of special architectural, historical or cultural significance, and has restrictions on amendments or demolition. Buildings are listed as either ...
Tiger Bay (Welsh: Bae Teigr) was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks. Following the building of the Cardiff Barrage , which dams the tidal rivers, Ely and Taff , to create a body of water, it is referred to as Cardiff Bay .
Before the completion of the Cardiff Bay Barrage in 1999, Cardiff Bay was tidal, with extensive expanses of mud flats exposed at low tide. Construction of the barrage, one of the largest engineering projects in Europe, has turned Cardiff Bay into a 500-acre (2.0 km 2 ) freshwater lake with 8 miles (13 km) of waterfront.
The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was wound up on 31 March 2000, handing over control of the completed project to Cardiff Council. Soon afterwards the plaque at the Penarth end of the barrage was removed and an entirely new plaque erected midway along the barrage. The new plaque made no mention of Cardiff Bay Development Authority.