and water runoff
source
REMEDIATION
remediation efforts on a grazing
re already paying dividends for a
landholder.
tts, of Sonoma Station, had barely
nstructing four diversion banks on
re catchment hotspot, when the
ened and dumped 150 ml of rain on
early March.
did their job - 100 per cent of the
d on Mr Watts’ property.
was lost,” he said.
“The banks were a success thanks to good
planning and technical assistance.”
“Water was held up by the structures, and
overflow water was returned into the landscape
by way of spreaders at each end of the banks.
“Prior to the banks, runoff would see sediment
suspended in the water and leave the property,
go out onto the main road, run into Pelican Creek
which eventually runs into the Burdekin River,
then out to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
ISSUE 1, April, 2018 | P29