The wettest December in Midlothian in years apparently. Major floods over the country this month, with some terrible landslips and devastation caused by flooding. It wasn't so bad in Midlothian thankfully.
Of course I was keen to assess any impact on the landslip at Ironmills. The high river level meant I couldn't reach my favoured spot for taking a monthly photograph of the toe of the landslip this morning. But none-the-less, the photo that I did manage to take, and all other visual assessment of the area around the landslip at Ironmills, indicates no change.
This adds to the councils own observation, that since December 2014, there has been no movement on the land-slipped ground. All in complete co-incidence with the completion of repairs to the leaking drainage in December 2014!
December 2015
Update 3rd Jan 2016, noted a hairline crack in soft soil to the East of the original landslip. May be nothing but worth keeping an eye on it. This is not anywhere near the original landslip crack, this is at the top of Ironmills at the path that runs along the cemetery wall heading towards the bowling club. It may be nothing more than movement in fresh soil that was moved here during the works to put in a land drain in this area. Who knows.
Update 3rd Jan 2016, noted a hairline crack in soft soil to the East of the original landslip. May be nothing but worth keeping an eye on it. This is not anywhere near the original landslip crack, this is at the top of Ironmills at the path that runs along the cemetery wall heading towards the bowling club. It may be nothing more than movement in fresh soil that was moved here during the works to put in a land drain in this area. Who knows.
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