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Swan Lake

WITH reference to the council's proposed removal of the swans and the draining and cleaning of the lake.

If the officers of the council or the airport authorities had taken the time to research this problem, they might have discovered a report on what Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has done about the huge amount of wildfowl that live around the airfield.

The airport authorities have been experimenting with a grape-scented repellent which is used as a non-toxic food chemical (Methyl Anthranilate).

The report states that birds find this chemical, when sprayed over areas in which they live, very aggravating and look elsewhere for sites where they can live.

I am sure that if there is a problem of bird strikes from the swans at the lake, that the local airport authority would only be too pleased to contribute to the cost of spraying and moving the swans to another site.

Tom Clemett

Church Road

Cadoxton




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