The following 9 sections of video cover approximately 1.5 kms of the upper Logan Water. You will see in the videos that a major incident has occurred in this area which apparently happened on the 8th of May 2008. We find it shocking that such a pollution could be allowed to happen especially in a tributary of a recovering salmon river namely the River Clyde. We stock this tributary every year with up to 10,000 trout fry and 5000 parr and have been doing so since the hatchery was first built.
Scottish Water report that they were unaware of our existence and for that reason did not contact us prior to repair works to the valves in the Logan Reservoir Dam. We did however let them know of our existence a few months ago and informed them of our fears regarding these works.
Given that the pollution took place almost a week ago we find it strange that we had not been informed of its occurrence and had to find out about it through a third party. We could not believe what we had been told and set out to examine the area in question for ourselves. What you are about to see is shocking evidence in relation to engineers not knowing what to do and you will see straw bales laced at various locations within the most heavily affected area. these bales have proven to be totally ineffective in preventing over 1.5km of river being choked to death.
What we would like to know is 1 who is responsible for this ecological disaster
2 what do Scottish Water propose to do about removing what is thousands on tons of thick black stinking sludge from the river bed.
3 what are they going to do to get the river restocked with aquatic invertebrates and fish
4 what other fauna has been affected by the siltation, birds such as dippers wagtails sandpipers and oyster catchers all rely on this area to feed their young from aquatic invertebrates.
How many baby otters are going to starve to death because all the fish have been killed. The valve in the reservoir is now closed but we were informed by the workmen that it will need to be opened again which will cause more silt to be released into the Logan watercourse. We publicly demand an explanation from Scottish Water in relation to what has gone on and we will be seeking a fair bit in compensation once we go over our records and try to establish exactly how many fish were released each year. To prevent this incident being lost in some obscure file somewhere we thought that the pollution is so bad that the general public should be made aware. 2 national news papers are looking into it and BBC have shown a great deal of interest too
We apologise for the 9 sections of film but it was the only way we could upload film from start to finish. Each section filmed reveals its own particular horror story..
Our research team will be back out on the river to check for evidence of further damage through siltation downstream of their lower 'Barrier'. Any idiot can see that when the water reaches the top of the bales it will be forced out across adjoining fields thereby polluting farmers land as well as his river.
We would beg anyone who is having similar work carried out on a reservoir near them to monitor it very carefully in a bid to prevent a similar situation arising
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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having witnessed this for myself it is the worse i have ever seen but we new it was only a matter of time before something like this happened
My flabber has well and truly been gasted! What an horrendous sight! It's utterly shocking that an incident like this is allowed to happen....who, if anyone did they inform of their intentions????? They have to be held to account over something as terrible as this! What kind of reparations (I don't mean totally ineffectual straw bales being used) are they going to make???? All that life just being wiped out due to utter incompetence!!!! I'm left not knowing what else to say as words can't be found which are effective enough to describe how I feel about this......
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