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St Bernard's Well open afternoons 2009, 12pm to 3pm
The Well, on the Water of Leith between Dean Village and Stockbridge, will be open to visitors on Sundays 5th April, 3rd May, 7th June and 5th July 2009. Plus “Festival Sundays” (9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th August) and Saturday 26th September for Doors Open Day (11am to 3pm).
Entry to the Well is free.
Public meeting: Hydroelectric Power generation in Dean Village
Tuesday 22nd September 2009 at 7.30pm
Dean Parish Church Hall, Dean Path
The City of Edinburgh Council has identified a number of sites along the Water of Leith
suitable for placing micro hydroelectric power generators. One such site is the lower weir downstream from West Mill in Dean Village. The generator would provide 50 - 60kw of power. Once in place it would generate power continuously with only occasional servicing. The power generated would be sold to the grid, thus providing an income.
The probable cost of installing the generator would be in the region of £160000. This
outlay will be recovered in ten to twelve years, i.e. a return of around 9%, exceptional
even in normal times. This income stream would continue in perpetuity, would
be inflation proof, and would increase as energy costs increase.
The Dean Village Association is having a Public Meeting to discuss this issue,
with interested parties attending to give information and advice. The object of the
meeting will be to determine the will of the residents to pursue this project. If the meeting decides in favour of the hydro-electric generator, we can ask that the Dean Village West Mill site be included in a technical study by Community Energy Scotland.
The public meeting will take place on Tuesday 22nd September at 7.30pm in the Dean
Village Church Hall. Members of other community groups that have already decided to
take the project forward to the planning stage have been invited. Representatives of the
Sustainable Development unit of the City of Edinburgh Council will also be present, and
our Inverleith councillors have also been invited.
The Water of Leith has a long history of producing power from its flow; indeed 76 mills
were operating along the length of the river in the eighteenth century. Therefore
installing these microturbines to convert water power to electrical power is a great
opportunity to once again use the flow of the Water of Leith.
Click here to read the minutes of the meeting.
Art exhition: A place of springs 10th to 23rd August 2009, from 10am to 4pm (Sundays 1pm to 5pm)
1F1, 53 Belford Road, venue 194
Is this the only event on the Fringe to deal with the issue that is dominating all our lives in Edinburgh – the tram works?!
This exhibition contains six oil paintings of the holes in the ground and the men working in them. It also includes other pictures of places that might be dark or threatening but in which the people do not seem unhappy. Hence the title - A Place of Springs – a reference to the Psalm that says " They go through the barren valley and find it a place of springs." There are also pictures of plant life, which grows with such vigour from the seed in the ground.
Dean Village Association's AGM: Tuesday 28th April 2009, 7.30pm
Dean Parish Church Hall, Dean Path, Edinburgh.
Dr Morris Bradley lately of Lancaster University, will lead a discussion on climate change.
Water of Leith Clean-up, from 10am on Sunday 3rd May 2009
Meet in the playground at the foot of Dean Path (triangular piece of land with the Silver Birch tree)
Please wear old clothes, boots or wellies, and come dressed for the weather
Public meeting, Tuesday 12th May 2009, 7.30pm
Dean Parish Church Hall, Dean Path
Maurice McIlwrick on The History of St Giles’ Cathedral
Dean Cemetery Tours 2009 with the Dean Village Association
Sundays 23rd May, 21st June and 19th July 2009
2.30pm from the main Cemetery gate on Dean Path.
£3 per adult, children under 12 free.
Dean Village Tours 2009 with the Dean Village Association
Tuesday 16th June and Thursday 16th July 2009
7.15pm from the house on Dean Bridge, at the top of Bell's Brae.
£3 per adult, children under 12 free.
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