River Don Priority Catchment Walk – Event summary
14 March 2018The River Don Priority Catchment meeting was a farm walk carried out at SRUC’s Tulloch Farm at Craibstone, near Aberdeen.
Pete Wright, SEPA catchment co-ordinator, provided an update on the programme of catchment walks, the issues they were finding and the solutions that farmers were using. 
During the course of the farm walk, spreading on steep ground, erosion at waterings and crossing points, and the effective management of buffer strips were the main issues that were discussed.
At the end of the farm walk, the Farming & Water Scotland team demonstrated examples of alternatve watering systems such as solar pumps and hydraulic rams.
For more information on ways to reduce rural diffuse pollution from your farm, or to read about Scotland’s Diffuse Pollution Priority Catchments, please visit the Farming & Water Scotland webpage. ‘Know The Rules’ leaflets were available on the day, these can be downloaded from the Farming & Water Scotland website.
You can use the links below to download the handouts available to take away on the day and related information.
- Controlling invasive non-native plants – a leaflet from The River Dee Trust
- Controlling invasive non-native plants - a leaflet from The River Dee Trust
- Topics: Water Management
- Technical Note (TN665): Alternative Watering for Field Grazed Livestock I – Abstraction Systems
- This technical note presents two different abstraction point designs to supply an alternative watering system, based on findings from Scottish Government funded trial work on three farms in Scotland.
- Topics: Water Management and Livestock
- Technical Note (TN666): Alternative Watering for Field Grazed Livestock II – Pumping Systems
- This technical note looks at the use of three alternative watering systems, based on findings from Scottish Government funded trial work on three farms in Scotland.
- Topics: Water Management and Livestock
- Poaching information document
- This is a copy of the handout available at the Wet Weather Resilience Planning events at Castle Kennedy & Wigtown
- Topics: Climate Change, Soils and Water Management
- Soil management and River Dee priority catchment – presentation slides by Paul Chapman
- These are the presentation slides used by Paul Chapman during the Soil management and River Dee Priority Catchment event
- Topics: Climate Change and Water Management
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