How we regenerate Australian landscapes - Leaky Weirs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- At the Mulloon Institute we restore landscape function using carefully planned and designed structures that fit neatly into the landscape. One of these is the leaky weir which are built from natural materials such as rocks, logs, soil and vegetation which binds them together. The structures are designed to raise the water level of the stream, and to slow and filter the flow, giving it a chance to infiltrate and recharge the groundwater.
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A perfect description backed by good animation and short enough for even politicians to understand...two thumbs up mate
The Mulloon Institute is ahead of it's time.
best illustration i have seen explaining this process. What you call a leaky weir, we call a B_D_A_ a Beaver Dam Analogue
cool, U.S.A and canada the equivalent to leaky wiers is to imitate beaver dams and also re-introduce beavers into the environment to help out
Beavers are going to be very important in some parts of the US especially here in California now that we are going to ve removing some dams
This is a short and great descriptive video. I've seen several videos about you today. Thank you for the great work you do.
I’ve been following this ever since Peter Andrews was on the Burkes Back Yard Show and have read his book “Back From the Brink”. The ABC’s Australian Story show had helped enormously with bringing to light the brilliance and simplicity of how Peter’s knowledge can help rehabilitate environments not only in Australia. All I can say is Thank You.
Good animation...
thanks guys. been talking about this with friends etc. how treating our waterways as pipes to dump water in ocean is neither effective flood protection and wrecked the landscape.
Like speed bumps...
Fantastic presentation! Something similar is being done in India, I believe.
This and a sand dam video were the first videos that really caught my attention. This shows what people can do and not sit around and wait for the goverment.
I like a good short and to the point video.
This is excellent. The Americans would have made it ten (10) times longer with no point.
Really interesting.
10/05/2121 Surely our local Governments have bought into these ideas and are helping to facilitate them for local areas? Time to get rid of State Governments and have the Local Govts concentrate on local problems!
It's time for PEOPLE to fix there problems.
Has the Mulloon Institute evaluated vetiver grass for the landscape functionality projects?
We need a great "people person" to get everyone on board with the right things to do. Caring for the land is right. But it's so hard to convince people how it will actually benefit them. Public relations are incredibly important. Surely everyone would want to retain water better, but many people have their own mental blocks to get through first.
Can you please do a video on dealing with riverbank erosion.
We have 4 m vertical cliffs on outside bends and are losing 30 year old trees, it doesn’t help that the river is set up more like a drainage channel, but what techniques would you use to deflect current at certain points?
It is on the Yarra River in Vic and you would be welcome to use it as a test site.
Thanks for your question, please feel free to contact info@themullooninstitute.org if you'd like to address a specific site problem in your area. Also, keep an eye on the NEWS page on our website, as we send out info when videos and case studies are updated.
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On the eastern side of the great Dividing range twas a different story😢
Beavers do this naturally.
Not in Australia! But woody debris forms partials dams all on their own if you just let trees grow and eventually fall