Giant Hogweed Control – 10 years on

by | Jul 16, 2018 | Invasives

There are always lessons to learn from everything we do and while we’ve felt that we are making progress with controlling Giant Hogweed in Ayrshire, 2018 will go down as a difficult and disappointing year as for the first time since 2011, The Irvine and Garnock...

Water of Fail and Montgomerie Woods

by | Jul 13, 2018 | Conservation

The Water of Fail hasn’t featured much on our pages in the last few years and there’s a reason for that. Despite it being the second largest tributary of the Ayr up from the sea (after the Coyle) and 14 miles from the harbour, it suffers from bad water...

Tarbolton Landfill Meeting

by | Jul 4, 2018 | Events

There will be a Public Meeting held at 7pm on the 4th July 2018 in Tarbolton Primary School where SEPA will be present to update members of the public on the situation at the landfill and answer any questions.

Tarbolton Landfill in Liquidation

by | Jun 26, 2018 | General

Following the operator of Tarbolton Landfill going into voluntary liquidation on the 13th June, concerns have risen over leachate from the site that may be entering the Water of Fail and the River Ayr system. Apparently, there are concerns over the nature of materials...

Middle Girvan Green Engineering

by | Jun 8, 2018 | Conservation, General

2 years and one month on from when we first installed willow spiling at our green bank engineering sites on the Girvan, we have completed everything we planned to do and achieved almost all our intended results. The demonstration sites will continue to improve over...

Smolts affected by Fungal infection

by | May 18, 2018 | Conservation, General

As regular readers will be aware, we’ve been monitoring smolt movements on the River Ayr through Catrine dam in a custom built fish pass and by-wash for several weeks now. Recently, the number of fish we’ve seen with fungal infection prompted us to call in...

Upper Ayr – Industrial heritage vs migration

by | May 15, 2018 | Conservation

While we recognise the value of our local industrial heritage, we still see issues for fish migration and fish habitat that arises as a result of mining activity. Of course in recent years, there’s no hiding the many open cast mines that devastated the East...