{"id":3086,"date":"2019-01-23T04:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murrumbidgeelandcare.org.au\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T02:08:02","slug":"flood-mitigation-balancing-environmental-production-and-infrastructure-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/flood-mitigation-balancing-environmental-production-and-infrastructure-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood mitigation: Balancing environmental, production and infrastructure needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row 0=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=&#8221;&#8221;]<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 &#8211; 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Funded by the\u00a0Qantas Foundation, through Landcare Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Kyeamba Valley and Tarcutta Valley Landcare groups worked together on this project to explore options for flood mitigation and erosion control.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, devastating floods caused significant environmental and infrastructure damage, and created havoc for farming properties still recovering from drought. The area was again adversely impacted by flooding in early 2012. This highlighted the community\u2019s need to learn new skills and techniques to help rebuild ecosystems &#8211; leading to the development of this project.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Landcare groups and local farmers expressed a keen desire for greater understanding, knowledge and expertise regarding flood mitigation to minimise damage whilst balancing environmental, production and infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Through this project, a series of highly successful workshops were delivered, covering topics such as Low Cost Erosion Control, Frogs on Farms and Streambank Erosion. <a href=\"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/streambank-erosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Presentations from the workshops are available here. (opens in a new tab)\">Presentations from the workshops are available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row 0=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=&#8221;&#8221;] 2012 &#8211; 2013 Funded by the\u00a0Qantas Foundation, through Landcare Australia The Kyeamba Valley and Tarcutta Valley Landcare groups worked together on this project to explore options for flood mitigation and erosion control. In 2010, devastating floods caused significant environmental and infrastructure damage, and created havoc for farming properties still recovering from drought.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[106,129,128],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed-projects","tag-erosion-control","tag-kyeamba-valley-landcare-group","tag-tarcutta-valley-landcare-group","pmpro-has-access","category-114","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7006,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/7006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}