by Dave | Jul 9, 2016 | Construction, Erosion, News From The Edge
One of our major issues at Arborlon is Erosion. Running or flowing water has caused significant erosion in most gullies across our property and severely affected the house hill. Now that the South path Wall is finished we can continue to add some more elements of our water control plan.
One of those is the use of Whoa-boys. Don’t know what a Whoa-boy is… neither did we. At least not by that name.
by Dave | Jun 20, 2016 | Construction, Erosion, News From The Edge
For the second time this winter we got an extraordinary weather pattern that brought about unseasonable wind and rain to South East Queensland. An east coast Low pressure system, inconjunction with a surface trough brought us strong winds and unseasonable rain. br> br>
We only received 75+ mm, but this represents a significant on day fall when the monthly average is just 42mm. br> br>
The total recorded here(so far) for July 2016 is 300.5 mm – representing more than 7 times the average for the month.
by Dave | Jun 5, 2016 | Erosion, News From The Edge, Weather
The Weekend of the 4th-5th June brought a rare and dangerous confluence of weather systems to the Eastern Coast of Australia, and for us, heavy rain for the Soth East corner of Queensland. Especially the Scenic Rim.
by Dave | Mar 1, 2016 | Erosion, Native Plants, News From The Edge
Today we continued to plant out the South Gully on our path to returning it to a Rainforest state.
Weather and lack of rain have slowed us down a little, but with showers predicted for a few weeks we can get on with the planting.
by Dave | Feb 13, 2016 | Erosion, News From The Edge
We had a little rain around the end of January, and beginning of February – 100+ mm in the last week of Jan, and 50+ mm in the first week of Feb. Some of this rain played havoc with some of our construction works. It was mostly due to volume and incomplete construction.
We had addressed most of the issues by now, and were therefore surprised to discover a big washout on the road side of the property.
by Dave | Oct 27, 2015 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Weather
After the promise of rain for a few days, and the disappointment of Sunday’s storm missing us completely, we we very glad to see some rain on Monday afternoon and night.
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