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Protocols in using dam water for highbanking
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<blockquote data-quote="Occasional_panner" data-source="post: 480003" data-attributes="member: 7956"><p>You'll find some mullocs are listed as historic. Hell it's a pile of dirt, but hey just play along.</p><p>I know some get their knickers in a knot about processing material into a dam, but really all those dams were initially put there for processing plants, they are always next to areas of surfaced or majorly worked areas.</p><p>So they are not, and never have been pristine swimming holes that are a habitat for rare poowong frogs or platypus.</p><p></p><p>If you set the banker up on the peak of the dam wall so the water flows back in, then you can spread the tailings out at the end of your effort, and all you have done is increade the dam wall height by a couple of mm by the time it spread out.</p><p>Most of the people I have seen do it right next to the waters edge and leave a neat pile right there. That is wrong in my book.</p><p></p><p>We are lucky here in Vic, we can use trommels even, so it's in out best interest to keep a low profile and not be obviously effecting the landscape.</p><p></p><p>This also goes for detectorists. EVERY time I go bush you can see fresh dig holes and not even an effort to drag the dirt across with their boot is evident, no effort made whatsoever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Occasional_panner, post: 480003, member: 7956"] You'll find some mullocs are listed as historic. Hell it's a pile of dirt, but hey just play along. I know some get their knickers in a knot about processing material into a dam, but really all those dams were initially put there for processing plants, they are always next to areas of surfaced or majorly worked areas. So they are not, and never have been pristine swimming holes that are a habitat for rare poowong frogs or platypus. If you set the banker up on the peak of the dam wall so the water flows back in, then you can spread the tailings out at the end of your effort, and all you have done is increade the dam wall height by a couple of mm by the time it spread out. Most of the people I have seen do it right next to the waters edge and leave a neat pile right there. That is wrong in my book. We are lucky here in Vic, we can use trommels even, so it's in out best interest to keep a low profile and not be obviously effecting the landscape. This also goes for detectorists. EVERY time I go bush you can see fresh dig holes and not even an effort to drag the dirt across with their boot is evident, no effort made whatsoever. [/QUOTE]
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