River Irvine Catchment works update

The weir at Newmilns is now just a memory but the river is still finding its own level. With last weekends large spate, there have been considerable changes to the run and pool. The head of the run has cut down into the bed emptying the shallow pool upstream. The deep...

Giant Hogweed Discovered on Doon Catchment

While out and about Stuart spotted what looked like some Giant Hogweed plants next to Springwater Fishery near Dalrymple. As he had only seen these from a distance myself and Helen went to have a look yesterday and found a good few plants over the back of the banking...

River Levels

I regularly check the Scottish Environment Protection Agency web site for the latest hydrographs detailing river flows. SEPA has Gauging stations on many rivers and burn across Scotland where they monitor daily flows and the data collected is published on their...

Lugar Pollution

Yesterday I reported on a pollution incident that occurred on the Lugar. I have more details now although just how serious an incident this has been remains unclear. I understand that a small number of fish were observed dead, downstream of the point where water used...

Pollution incident resulting in fish killed

This afternoon I received word from SEPA that an incident near Auchinleck last night has led to fish dying in the Lugar. I have little information as yet but it appears that a fire at farm buildings on Dumfries Estate (or in that vicinity) led to the pollution. SEPA...

Invasives Update – Giant Hogweed

Since my last post i have been out walking areas of the River Ayr and noticed a good few Giant Hogweed plants seemed to have been missed. Some plants have also popped up since the contractors started.  The contractors will be out again this week and have been...