Comments on: Rivulets http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/ tales of life from North Queensland, Australia Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dunc http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/#comment-22151 Dunc Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:40:45 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=815#comment-22151 Nothing like a nice even radius, uniform channel width and consistant bank slopes to make a text book perfect channel. Easy to calculate different variables you know! I've been having the pleasure of such thinking thrown at me over the past year. It's getting a bit dry. tom: Strangly the scour protection just stops, ummm..... ok? But at least there is some LWD, ok 1 LWD. Maybe they got if from the LFS and could ony afford the single peice! Nothing like a nice even radius, uniform channel width and consistant bank slopes to make a text book perfect channel. Easy to calculate different variables you know!

I’ve been having the pleasure of such thinking thrown at me over the past year. It’s getting a bit dry.

tom: Strangly the scour protection just stops, ummm….. ok? But at least there is some LWD, ok 1 LWD. Maybe they got if from the LFS and could ony afford the single peice!

]]> By: tom http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/#comment-22093 tom Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:09:22 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=815#comment-22093 tt, I like how they harden the channel with rocks and then add a big piece of timber - which are usually placed to enhance scour and develop hydrological diversity (i.e., different flow velocities) - right on top of it. Note the gal. chain - like that's going to hold a 4000 kg tree in a flood. Fucking noobs in their fluoro jackets! tt, I like how they harden the channel with rocks and then add a big piece of timber - which are usually placed to enhance scour and develop hydrological diversity (i.e., different flow velocities) - right on top of it. Note the gal. chain - like that’s going to hold a 4000 kg tree in a flood. Fucking noobs in their fluoro jackets!

]]> By: tom http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/#comment-22092 tom Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:06:49 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=815#comment-22092 Benwah, the irony was not lost on me either... Benwah, the irony was not lost on me either…

]]> By: timtim http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/#comment-22062 timtim Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:01 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=815#comment-22062 That stuff is so bad and anyone with half a brain would never swallow the "it makes it back to the surface" argument. The surface water will run through the fissures that propagate from mine level 100m below ground to the surface. The mine collapsing after the coal has been extracted is part of the design. People are just so fixed on getting the coal out that they forget about everything else. Perhaps they can do a Macarthur River style diversion or Morwell River like this http://www.mcarthurriver.com.au/web_images/Morwell_River_Div_workers.jpg in Victoria. Ahh engineers, it looks almost as good as a natural river yes?!... That stuff is so bad and anyone with half a brain would never swallow the “it makes it back to the surface” argument. The surface water will run through the fissures that propagate from mine level 100m below ground to the surface. The mine collapsing after the coal has been extracted is part of the design. People are just so fixed on getting the coal out that they forget about everything else. Perhaps they can do a Macarthur River style diversion or Morwell River like this http://www.mcarthurriver.com.au/web_images/Morwell_River_Div_workers.jpg in Victoria. Ahh engineers, it looks almost as good as a natural river yes?!…

]]> By: Benwah http://tomandzoe.com/log/2007/11/rivulets/#comment-22061 Benwah Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:54:14 +0000 http://tomandzoe.com/log/?p=815#comment-22061 Ironic that when I clicked on the slideshow before it started there was an advert for the new Hummer.... Ironic that when I clicked on the slideshow before it started there was an advert for the new Hummer….

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