While on the Girvan yesterday looking at a potential site suitable for a green engineering solution to cut erosion, we became aware that there was slurry spreading going on nearby and boy was it going on! It’s the time of the year for it and there’s no doubt the black stuff makes the grass grow and reassures you that your sense of smell works perfectly. Now we understand the weather at the moment is ideal for a bit of spreading and normally we’d say, ‘Fill yer boots’ but, we couldn’t help but notice that the 10m ‘no spread zone’ (from…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – Girvan erosion and other problems