Notes
Slide Show
Outline
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Hardys Bay
to
Hardys Mangrove Swamp
  • A Transition by Sedimentation
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"Sedimentation"
  • Sedimentation
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2003
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1975
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1954
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Mudflat Creek - Today
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Mudflat Creek
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Mudflat
Creek

Flood Hazard
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Mudflat Creek in Flood - 1988
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Fraser Road

1988
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Then
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Stanley Street  – Health Hazard
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RSL Creek
Araluen Drive
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Araluen Drive
Down from RSL Creek
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Hardys Bay
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Pretty Beach Baths
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Who put the road in the bay?
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Causes
  • High Rainfall Events
  • Land Clearing
  • Unsealed Roads
  • Earth Drains
  • Not enough Sediment Traps
  • Govt. No Dredge Policy
  • Mangrove (Protected) build up
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Erosion – We need Better Drains
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What Can be Done - for Flooding
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Erosion
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What can be done – for Erosion
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What can be done – for Erosion
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Council Progress
    • Floodplain Risk Management Committee
  • Mudflat Creek Flood Study and Plan
  • Turo Creek Flood Study and Plan
  • Brisbane Water Flood Study and Plan
  • Funding – may be years
  • Killcare, Pretty Beach and Wagstaffe Drainage Study and Plan – Work now in progress
  • Quick Fixes ?? Limited to risk to life/health issues.
  •     Brisbane Water Estuary Management Committee
  • Brisbane Water Estuary Processes *Study and Plan
  •     *(Study to conclude in Dec 06)
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Recommendations
  • REDUCE the size of sediment deltas
  • REPLENISH  and REHABILITATE eroded bay foreshores
  • INSTALL sediment traps on all high flow rate drains
  • DEEPEN Mudflat Creek
  • DEEPEN RSL Creek outlet
  • LIMIT mangrove growth
  • REMOVE disused oyster lease rubbish
  • WORK with Government departments
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