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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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Dean Village Landslip to be rectified at last

Saturday, 25 July, 2020 - 19:04
Four years after the failed renovation of the car parking area adjoining the modern house next to the Dean Cemetery there is hope that the landslip will be finally stabilised allowing the path along the river between the Dean village and Belford bridge to be safely reopened. However it could take 6 months for work to be carried out. This image taken on the 15 th April 2016 shows how pile drilling and concrete works to rectify the landslip from the top level next to the house was unsuccessful days after the job was completed for the second time. It...
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Ivy cleared on Mackenzie Bridge

Saturday, 18 July, 2020 - 22:10
At last the ivy has been cleared off the railings on the Mackenzie Bridge at Stockbridge. It has revealed the damage which can be done to the beautiful antique and original ironwork. Let us hope they will be re-painted and mended soon. Continual care and maintenance of our heritage ironwork is important but it is made a great deal easier if hedges, plants and ivy are not allowed to grow up through them. Now revealed, by the ivy removal, is the second arch of the bridge for the old mill lade taking water to Silvermills and Canonmills downstream. And growing...
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Water of Leith Initiative - Closing Statement

Tuesday, 16 June, 2020 - 23:17
Our charitable company, Dean Valley Regeneration Limited, was incorporated in September 2015, and since then we have been working steadily towards making an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund (formerly the Heritage Lottery Fund). With an estimated project cost of over £1.9m, Lottery Fund support would always have been essential, and it was always intended that the City of Edinburgh Council would make the application and carry the project forward. We have worked closely with the Council to that end, and our formal Expression of Interest was submitted to the Fund by the Council in December. The response from...
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