all that new stone will be down at the harbour now I reckon.....
water table is beyond saturated now ... I'm at 150ft elevation on a hill in lower deeside and we are starting to see water build up to worrying levels now.....
I wonder what he'll do with the rest of the money? (£90k ish?)
Well I'd imagine he'd either use it for its intended purpose or give it back.
Or are we now just randomly accusing the guy of embezzling money from a charity on the basis that he is a bit posh?
Trail rat +1 - absolutely futile putting all that down.
@GrahamS wondering where the figure of 100k came from if the plan is to put some stones in the river. Also wondering what phase 2 of the 'plan' is
Got to say I was expecting some large boulders to be put down initially, or better still groups of large boulders contained within steel cages.
Not sure how its doing today. Regardless of who owns the castle you can't build a new 450 year old tower house and it would be a shame to loose the heritage.
Pictures of the repairs as I see there are still assumptions being made.
Also I have heard that if all goes to plan, and there is no further damage today, the Invercauld bridge should be open circa the 18th
is the castle still there after last night ?
i had my own moat this morning. drove down to see what the bridge looked like for the mrs going to work and at 6am there was no way i was even contemplating it in the landy water was fast flowing and about 3 foot deep on top of the bridge..... my neighbour was thinking about it in her merc... she thought better of it when a 5series tried to go through and cut out after about 10 ft out of the water - last i saw it was going on a cars recovery low loader.
at 8am it was passable with care in an elevated car - about a foot deep and still fast flowing.
this is a burn thats normally 6 ft wide and 2 ft deep tops ........it was about 100ft wide and about 15 foot deep minimum.
[quote=cinnamon_girl ]Any word/s from Ms Sturgeon on this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35269135
£1,500 grants to all affected
(Apologies for those waiting for the photo/video of it crumpling into the river)
£1,500 grants to all affected
Unless your bezzie's have influence, then it is £100k.
And £3k for affected business. That means he's got £104,500 to play with now. That should see him through.
I wonder what his thinking was in NOT doing some serious bank reinforcing work to save his home was then?
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Sorry, Pavlovian response. Same as whenever someone say Mcmanaman I always have to do the Mnah Mnah Do-do, do-do-do response bit.
it would be interesting to see what it looked like, say, last summer.
I paddled past a few months ago with LD of this forum. I didn't take a pic - I was busy taking a pic of the canoe in the tree opposite...
Some video from Saturday showing the current work
That is a ****load of stone/rubble
That is a [b]metric[/b] **** [b]load[/b] of stone/rubble
Ftfy
It still remains on the outside of the river bank, against the flow.
Any idea what the long term fix is anyone? That looks as if a spate or 2 and it'll be as you were.
I would have thought they'd at least used gabion baskets to give it some structure.
A fair few bits of the Dee are gabioned, steel sheet re-enforced or mahoosive boulders.
in fairness, fixing that would cost a tad more than a £100,000 charitable donation... Need to call in these guys!It still remains on the outside of the river bank, against the flow.
Fantastic footage. I wonder why drones are so immune to breezes and updrafts? What's going on on the inside of the bend? It looks as if somebody is about to start excavating the material that's been dumped as part of the normal erosion/deposition effect of a river, which would make more room for the water.
I'm glad somebody managed to find the funds for it, even though I think the castle will go down the river one day, whatever we do.
They're taking rubble out of the river to give it more depth and reduce the impact on the new embankment
Okay that's clear in the first few seconds.
interesting....now they need a load of liquid concrete pumped on top of the rocks.
A93 repairs
The fact is getting done so quickly has nothing to do with the fact that queenie has a holiday home next door I'm sure
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I am sure she has a helipad there, she'll manage somehow.
The fact is getting done so quickly has nothing to do with the fact that queenie has a holiday home next door I'm sure
I though the south side had stayed open anyway, so the A93 closure wouldn't really have affected the Queen.
Invercauld Bridge re-opens today too.
I think the fact that it's the A93 might have something to do with it!
I wonder if the old fella owns the land over the river too, he'll probably get a suitable recompense for allowing them to build the new section of road too!
Pretty sure that the other side of the river is Invercauld Estate. They're nice folks. When the F&M thing was in full flow they were one of the first to assure walkers and cyclists that the hills were still "open".
