Data important part of learning hub
The Mount Pleasant
Learning Hub,
featuring Mulloon Institute
landscape rehydration
techniques, has been
designed to reinstate
the hydrological
function of the
landscape.
Monitoring and Evaluation
THE
grit
First large-scale project monitoring delivers
The Mt Wickham site was
selected as the LDC
project’s first large-scale
gully remediation site.
The gully catchment
treatment size was 3.03ha
and the control site size
was 14.14ha.
M&E continues on two-stream solution
The Glen Bowen site was selected as
the LDC project’s second major gully
remediation project in the Bowen Broken
Bogie (BBB) catchment.
Dubbed “Gully 1”, it had an actively
eroding footprint of about 3.36ha. The
perimeter was about 1.1km and the
banks of the gully scarp were, on
average, 2 – 2.5m high.
Early indications at Strathbogie are positive
Treatment at a gully system
on Strathbogie Station
included construction of five
hillslope flow diversion banks
and a small rock revetment
near a headcut designed to
prevent subsidence. Exclusion
fencing was also
installed.
Grit, Issue 21, August, 2020 | P5