The badly eroded Mary River on Mount Ubi Station at Kenilworth, whose sediment flows into the Great Barrier Reef, has been transformed with the help of federal government funding.
Station owner Stephen Carter says “We've certainly lost a lot of land, we're told something like 600,000 tonnes has disappeared, probably over the past 70 years, from floods and from erosion”.
Alluvium Consulting organised $500,000 worth of works that are calculated to reduce future sediment loss by 90 percent.
Some of the strategies involved planting 9,000 natives on the site and reshaping the bank with earthmoving equipment.