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93. Bayles - Levee Bank

This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:

  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Westernport Bay Catchment (1984) by Neville Rosengren.
  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Western Region of Melbourne (1986) by Neville Rosengren
  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance on the Coast of Port Phillip Bay (1988) by Neville Rosengren.
  • Sites of Environmental Significance in the Flood Plain of the Upper Yarra Valley Region (1983) by Neville Rosengren, Douglas Frood and Kim Lowe (as part of a study of Sites of Environmental Significance by the University of Melbourne for the then Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority).
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Location:

Bayles - 745735. Opposite the Bayles Primary School.

Image: Sites of Significance Port Phillip Bay
Sandy levee and former channel of
Yallock Creek at Bayles.

Access:

Phillips Road.

Ownership:

Private land.

Geomorphology:

A former course of the Yallock Creek is marked by a swampy depression flanked by sandy levee banks. The Bayles area is distinctive in the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp because of the number of raised sandy levee banks left by former high energy streams which drained across this area prior to the development of the main swamps.

Significance:

Regional. The site is a clear example of the sandy levees which are characteristic of the former stream courses in the Bayles area.

Management:

Class 2. Quarrying or levelling and construction works on the levee banks and drainage and filling of the depression would destroy the properties of the site. These activities should be prohibited in order to maintain the site.

Image: Sites of Significance Port Phillip Bay
Traces of levee banks (arrowed) marking
former courses of Yallock Creek, Bayles.
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