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Due to the river flowing very close to a lot of houses within the village there have been a number of floodings. The biggest floods were in 1960, which claimed the life of one man who lived in Afon street. ''Afon'' is a [[Welsh language|Welsh]] word that means ''river''. In most streets, the whole lower level of buildings was submerged by water. Other years that floodings have occurred were 1921, 1929, 1979 and most recently in the mid 1990s. In the late 90's1990s the Trehafod stretch of the Rhondda river bank was reinforced, in an effort to prevent future floodings.