by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 6, 2016 | Conservation, General
In keeping with other work we are doing at the moment, Muir and I met with a landowner this morning to see what we could suggest to stabilise rapidly eroding river banks. The site we visited was on the Greenock Water, an important tributary of the Ayr. For years the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jul 5, 2016 | Conservation, General
Following up on the SEPA’s demonstration event of last Autumn where we attended to offer support to SEPA’s engineering team and advice to farmers over green engineering techniques, Muir and I revisited the Upper Irvine site which continues to suffer...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 22, 2016 | Conservation, General
Since installing the first 30+ tonnes of boulders at the Muck Water in an attempt to improve the habitat, particularly for salmon, we returned over the last two days to seek opinions from Glasgow University specialists in river engineering and a SEPA hydro...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 9, 2016 | Conservation, General
Another day and another job. This time it was placing suitable boulders in the Muck Water near Dalmellington to improve juvenile habitat in the burn which was modified and moved 100 years ago. The instream habitat lacked diversity and large substrate material...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 3, 2016 | Conservation, General
Following the bank stabilisation we installed at Kilkerran on the 16th April this year, we nipped back recently to check how things were looking. There has only been one small run of water since that date but none the less, there appears to have been some build up of...
by Stuart Brabbs | Jun 2, 2016 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
On the 26th of May we reported that works had commenced on the Skeldon Mill Hydro Scheme and that contractors had been busy clearing the debris and undergrowth that encroached on the intake lade. ART are very supportive of the fact that the developer and contractor...