Council officers are to inspect damage done by the recent floods to the path between Muchalls and Newtonhill where the Pheppie Burn has burst its banks.
The bridge over the burn was washed away in previous floods, and its replacement was placed higher above the water by the council. This has meant that the bridge itself was unscathed this time. However the path on the Muchalls side of the bridge took a severe battering with the surface layer being washed away and a gulley torn out of the underpinnings. It seems the deluge was too much for the adjoining fields, which were waterlogged, and so the water poured on to the path and scoured away part of the path.
I contacted council officers who told me: “We will try and get out to look at this before the end of the week. There are similar issues in many locations across the ‘Shire and at the moment we are unsure what resources we will have to make good the damage.”
Understandably it may be some time before anything happens given the scale of devastation across other parts of Aberdeenshire.