People in Flintshire were left shocked as a huge section of a Welsh river turned bright orange over the course of a single weekend. Stretches of the River Dee, near where Flintshire meets Cheshire, changed from the usual muddy brown to a brighter shade through the weekend of May 13-14.
Reports of the orange colour came in from Holt and Farndon near Wrexham and across the border near Cheshire. One photo, captured by the canalised section of the river in Queensferry, Deeside, shows the extent of the colour change.
Andy Gray, who runs Andy Van Man removals in Queensferry, took the photo. He told North Wales Live: "I’ve been walking my dogs along the river most days for 15 years,” he said. “I’ve never seen it looking remotely like that before. The river is never this colour, not even slightly. People were literally stopping to take photos and to look at it!"
