We fenced this section of the burn a couple of years ago and used green engineering to stabilise what was very rapid and severe erosion. This was driven by livestock accessing the burn and margins and led to instability and loss of tonnes of soil from the field. Our first attempt at green engineering was doing fine until the exceptional spate that occurred in November that year. A large tree was washed downstream and burst into the newly regraded bank and green engineering which was barely established. Our fence was left hanging in the middle and a big hole was…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – Culroy Burn at Culroy revisited.