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Howden weir partnership community contribution Thank you to our partners, AmcoGiffen for their contribution to the local community. A wide range of equipment was procured through their trusted supplier Safeaid LLP, which included personal protection equipment, from...

With the weather being so changeable we haven't managed to get our ducks out racing yet! We had our fingers and toes crossed for good weather but alas, the River Almond was too high to send the ducks out swimming. Instead, we had a bunch of trees to plant for the...

A few of the team popped along today to the wonderfully accommodating Almondell & Calderwood Country Park, who having shared their river pollution issues with us a while back, are now in receipt of Annie Lord's new artwork. Made up of a selection of a few of the...

We are Minty Donald and Nick Millar, two public artists based in Glasgow. We are excited to be starting work on a new project - ‘Our’ Falls - in Polbeth, West Lothian. The ‘Our’ Falls project hinges around Limefield Falls and the construction of a viewing platform and...

Back in Autumn last year we met up with a few old faces to chat about invasive plants along the rivers Almond and Avon. See the newly released video about some of the work, motivation and importance of this type of work. A big thank you to all those who gave their...

There are three sites on the river Almond, within Almondell country park, where the river bank and path are badly eroded by foot- and paw-fall.  To find a solution to this problem, the Friends of Almondell and Calderwood Country Park approached the RiverLife team and...

In mid January the P4 / 5 classes at each of the schools received a1 hour session learning about the life cycle of Brown trout and Salmon. The session also covered habitat requirements, predation, pollution and bio- diversity. There was no doubt that the students were...

The River Almond has areas of great beauty but it also has a lot of unpleasant aspects, not the least the amount of sewage works that release water and occasionally other materials into the river. Kirsty, one of the rangers for West Lothian Council, told us of times...