Phase 2 of the Chalk River/Mauchline Burn restoration project is well underway. Continuing from last weeks green engineering, this week our fencer (Billy Semple) started erecting fences and gates. He takes great pride in his work and always leaves an excellent tight fence that should stand for a good number of years.
Good buffers are created by the fencing
High specification fencing erected that will provide benefits for years to come
At the same time, we installed a small improvement for fish passage downstream of a perched culvert. this will be tuned to work across a range of flows but the aim is to allow fish to swim through the culvert rather than having to leap into it. Had the culvert been installed at bed level, this wouldn’t have been necessary but it was done some years ago and we felt it should be improved.
A problem culvert that required improvement to ensure fish can migrate through it. Perched culverts fail in several ways as they are set above the bed meaning the downstream end is high, gradient steep and the flow through is accelerated
As we worked on getting the timber into place on Thursday morning during the spate, my phone slipped from my pocked into the coloured waters unnoticed. On discovering it was missing and retracing our steps we failed to find it and it wasn’t taking calls. We searched the burn as this seemed to be the most likely place I’d dropped it and several times I returned yesterday as the water levels receded without any sign of it. We returned again this morning but with no luck and all hope was fading until Ian Jackson turned up this afternoon and picked it from the water. The screen lit up and the phone was working fine. All credit to iPhone’s IP68 water proof rating. It was submerged for over 28 hours and I’m very relieved to have it back.
After our work, the culvert is a swim through rather than a leap and hard run
The phone was working perfectly
