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Footbridge in Dean Village to be repaired

Wednesday, 13 January, 2021 - 20:02
The green iron footbridge is scheduled to re-open by the end of March 2021. Quotes for the required repairs to Damside Bridge have now been received. The CEC is planning to deliver the repairs this financial year and hope to have them complete by end of March. However, this cannot be guaranteed due to a number of factors that may affect the work including the lockdown and weather. Recently uncovered a similar winter scene painting by Mrs E. Oughtred Buchanan 1937, in the style of William Gillies, of the Dean Village before the Legget Tannery was built after WWII. Painting...
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Shocking Tree Removal in Dean Village

Monday, 23 November, 2020 - 23:58
The Dean Village Association (DVA) have challenged Link Housing Association (Link) for the removal of all of the trees from their land by the riverside in the village. Link’s reasons for removal on 25 th and 26 th May 2020 were that the trees were hitting their building. However photographic evidence indicates this was never the case. Link also stated that one tree was at end of life, which is disputed by DVA. As a result, DVA have negotiated with Link to insist they replant the garden with trees including one fast growing mature tree (10ft to 15ft in height),...
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Dangerous Norway maple cut down

Saturday, 24 October, 2020 - 14:24
A large Norway maple which had root-heaved from the slope below Randolph Cliff and was hanging over the walkway had to be cut down the other day by the Forestry department for safety reasons. Ian Morrison, the Trees and Woodlands Officer, had already anticipated that the tree would need pruning and had programmed a crown reduction to alleviate wind-loading to the canopy. However increased and heavy rainfall, which creates soggy unstable ground, and swirling winds when the tree is in leaf, affected the tree causing it to heal over. The arisings and stump will be left to enhance biodiversity and...
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Sewage weed in the Dean Valley

Wednesday, 30 September, 2020 - 17:06
Sewage weed or filamentous algae Cladophora and Vaucheria, seen here in the Dean Valley, indicates high nitrogen levels in the water. Cycling down the Water of Leith walkway from Slateford today, 29th September, the river was low and there was an absence of sewage smell recently detected after extreme rain conditions and high river flow. Questions were recently asked at the CEC Council meeting as reported in WOLCT news letter . However we now know that sewage will overflow into the river when there are huge downpours of rain and the algae could well be an indicator of this. When...
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