One hundred fifty tonnes of salvaged hardwood have been engineered into ‘log jam’ structures to halt heavy erosion in Clyde Creek, Gladstone. This is the first time the environmental solution has
been used in the area.
It is hoped that this project could be the first successful attempt to install log jams in a tidal estuary in Queensland. The Queensland Government has funded the project through the Department of
Agriculture and Fisheries as part of offsets funding. Five of the structures – each made up of 17 hardwood logs and weighing 25 to 30 tonnes – were lowered into Clyde Creek 10 months ago.
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