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Richard Nairn

Jun 14, 2026

2:58
And would you say the river is in a good state here? Is it quite healthy here? And I mean, I notice that the water is very brown and, you know, why is that?
3:07
Uh, the brown comes from the peat it's bringing with it from the bog.
3:11
It's naturally brown like that.
3:13
There's no problem there.
3:15
It, it's also very acid in nature, which is again, natural, because peat is itself very acid.
3:22
And, um, it's, it's also flowing off granite, which is acid.
3:26
So, um, that would be normal for a mountain lake, and because it's so acid, it doesn't have a huge amount of insect life, for instance.
4:27
Why is it not so well known?

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