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Latrobe River area affected by landslides

Latrobe River North Fumina Edge of landslide on Cross's prop.

Latrobe River North Fumina Lower section of landslide on Cross's prop

Bacchus Marsh Sheet erosion on sedementaries due to severe overgrazing

Bacchus Marsh - sheet and gully erosion

Toolern Vale Headward gulley erosion

Toolern Vale Gulley erosion on country with a fall approximately 1%

Bacchus Marsh sheet and gully erosion soil and subsoil to a depth of 2 feet has entirely disappeared

Bulla - drainage from the upper side of the road is discharged through a small culvert 18" x 24" the road near the telegraph post.

Bulla - Heavy gully erosion beneath the culvert outlet

Bulla - The gully is over 1000' in length up to 1.32 feet in width and 57 at the deepest point. Formation - a basaltic soil overlying decomposed granite.

West of Warrandyte - sheet erosion has completely stripped the soil mantle from the underlying sedementaries

West of Maindample - sheet erosion has exposed the underlying sedimentary formation and gully erosion is tearing out the dup valley filling loams

West of Maindample - hill below fence wire

West of Maindample - Tarn of debris below gully

Balham hill Molesworth owing to the constant burning off the exposed soil mantle has been

West of Yea - Gully erosion

Plantation - heavy rains following bush fires of Jan 1939 caused heavy sheel and gully erosion

Laanecoorie Reservoir - siltation

Laanecoorie Reservoir - siltation has reduced the storage capacity of this reservoir from 14,000 acre feet in 1892 to 6650 acre feet in 1937