Project Overview

The Forth’s rivers reflect its varied history as landowners and entrepreneurs have shaped our land and rivers to meet the needs of agricultural improvement, drive industrial progress, transport our basic goods and glorify modern-engineering in the creation of designed landscapes.  This has left countless legacies in the social and economic context of Scotland, but a significant environmental one is the hundreds of barriers in our rivers, inclusive of sluices, dams, weirs, and culverts. These barriers have interrupted the natural processes of our rivers (e.g. moving sediment across the landscape) and ceased the unimpeded movement of our iconic, native fish species.

The ‘Dollar Weir Potential Removal’ project is our second project that FRT has been fortunate enough to receive funding from the Open Rivers Program. ORP have funded the first, and often most difficult stage of weir removal, which is to undertaken a number of studies and surveys of the weir and river to determine if it is possible to remove this redundant asset. This will hopefully lead to application to SEPA for the removal licence and the CAR (controlled activities regulations) licence for any other associated works. 

This is a primary website at present.  A more active and detailed website will be available in time. Please bear with us in the meantime. Below is a number of downloads for potential stakeholders and locals interested in the project.