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Location: | Labertouche - 996838. Tarago river 1.5 kilometres east of Drouin West. | |
Access: | Old Sale Road and Stocks Road. | |
Ownership: | Crown Land (Public Land Water Frontage Reserve) and Private Land. | |
Geomorphology: | The flood plain of the Tarago River is here confined in a valley cut in sedimentary beds of the Walhalla Group. The flood plain is 400 metres wide and the Tarago has incised a channel to a depth averaging 5 metres, thus creating a bordering terrace. On this terrace are depressions marking former higher level channels of the river. On the northern valley slope are old landslips. | |
Significance: | Regional. The site is an example of a confined flood plain and is of interest as a monitoring site to assess recent changes in channel morphology and the impact of these changes on the adjacent valley slopes. | |
Management: | Class 2. Subdivision should not be permitted on the area of the site and straightening or realignment of the river channel should not be permitted. |