Midway Plantations November 2007

Slip sliding away... Parish of Barramunga - Otway Ranges. At least 5 seperate landslips are developing on this drainage line that feeds into the Gellibrand River (Warranmbool's water supply), downstream of Stevensons Falls. Weeds also starting to dominate drainage lines.

Parish of Barramunga - Otway Ranges. Same drainage line where it meets the Gellibrand River, about 200m from above landslips. Note amounts of sediment deposited.

Parish of Barramunga - Otway Ranges. Same drainage line, which was recently flowing about 1 metre deep. The plantation above this drainage line was most likely sprayed with herbicides some months ago.

Same drainage line in October.

Nov 29 2007: Algal outbreaks in this drainage line now.

Parish of Barramunga - Otway Ranges. More landslips developing on highly erodable cretaceous sediments about 100 m from the Gellibrand River.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Old pine site burnt with many old trees being washed downstream after recent heavy rains. >100mm fell on the Otway Ranges on November 3/4.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. A delightful view.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Trees washed down during recent heavy rains. Such 'dams' can eventually result in a re-routing of creeks, as the trees can entirely block river flows. A re-routed creek then erodes the creek old bank, gouging out huge amounts of sediment in the process.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Disease or insect attack?

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Buffers on Class 1 streams. What are they?

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Recently established plantation with Blackberrys thriving where the gully line is. It could be argued that plantations are actually absentee landholders.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Large landslip after recent rains. The slip is several hundred metres long and potentially could see thousands of tonnes of silt into Charleys Creek.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Large landslip after recent rains.

ditto

ditto. Blackberries already re-establishing themselves.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Landslip and blackberries.

Parish of Moorbanool Otway Ranges - Charleys Creek. Landslip and weed infestation.

Parish of Baronganook Otway Ranges - Love Creek, 1km west of Kawarren. Pines to be converted to bluegums.

Parish of Baronganook Otway Ranges - Love Creek, showing proximity of bluegum plantations.

Parish of Barwongemoong - Ford River Catchment southern Otways.

Ford River Catchment Pines converted to hardwood

Fertilisers can contain heavy metals such as Lead. At this particular location in the Ford River catchment fertiliser used was: Incitec Pivot 2007/CB 34459.