{"id":5311,"date":"2025-01-17T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turfnsw.com.au\/?page_id=5311"},"modified":"2025-06-29T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T11:00:07","slug":"silt-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/turfnsw.com.au\/?page_id=5311","title":{"rendered":"Silt Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When determining the design of the flood recovery projects, the issue of silt was a major topic for many growers. They were dealing with something that many hadn’t experienced before and there were so many variations of how silt was impacting their farms.\u00a0<\/p>

“Silt” is a term used to describe the soil deposited on the surface by a flood.\u00a0 The silt varies in different locations, but many found it to be a loamy sand texture which when wet is very slimy.<\/p>

Every flood was different and every paddock was different, which meant there was no one size fits all for managing silt.<\/p>

The extent of the silt damage also was dependent on the stage of growth of the turf, the turf species and the time of year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Other factors included the clogged creeks and drains that prevented the clearing of flood waters and for those in the Richmond Lowlands and Cornwallis area they had to deal with a major collapse of a drain that changed the flow of flood waters and destroyed farms.<\/p>

The information developed on Silt Management includes:<\/p>