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Assessment of Flood Impacts and Cost Effectiveness of Treatments to Mitigate Erosion, Burnett River, Queensland, Australia
26/03/2015
The Burnett River, QLD Australia, experienced severe flooding in early 2011 and 2013, with the latter flood breaking all historical records. As a result, damage to infrastructure in Bundaberg and the loss of agricultural land from bank erosion was considerable. Exacerbated by the floods is concern about reducing sediment delivered to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). It was determined that about 28M m3 of material was eroded from the banks of the Burnett River making it the single largest contributor of sediment (as opposed to a minor contributor as was earlier reported) and causing re-evaluation of sediment management strategies.