Stomping out Sediment in the Burdekin Final Report | Seite 25

Property
Site name
Work completed at sire
Land types
( Queensland Globe )
5 Mile
house gullies
two gully sites fenced ( 6ha ) and brush weirs in some gully heads , subcatchments ripped and reseeded , small area stock excluded .
Sutherland
Black soil
260ha of Jack ’ s paddock fenced including 12ha severely eroded black soil area , two water points established ( one by the landholder ) and two control areas fenced ( one in neighbouring Amberkolly Station ).
Hellsgate- Desmond
Mt Wyatt Rd
162ha fenced into three paddocks and three water points established , several rock weirs installed on sample gullies and rock chute constructed on one gully head in neighbouring Desmond .
Hellsgate
cattle yards
26ha fenced into two paddocks and two water points established , trialing of revegetation options for scalded soils , several water spreading banks constructed
Johnnycake
cattle yards
fencing of 1ha site , reshaping gully head ,
rock aprons installed and 1 diversion bank
constructed and 1 whoa boy installed .
Johnnycake
House
reshaping , soil amelioration and reseeding of 4 gullies ( 0.9ha ) in conjunction with larger land and gully management project with Landholders Driving Change .
Table 1 : Summary of project works on nine cooperating properties .
narrow-leaf ironbark , shallower soils
narrow-leaf ironbark , shallower soils
narrow-leaf ironbark , shallower soils
box country
box country - gully complex
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