Tootgarook Swamp LIDAR imagesThese 3 images are fairly big files, so they may take a few seconds to load up. It will be worth the wait....
Press the Fullscreen buttons to enlarge and the magnifying glass buttons to zoom in The legend is on the first image at bottom left (scroll down or view full-screen and drag down)
Pressing Ctrl + or - zooms the bowser window in and out in most browsers The primary spectrum of blue to red denotes the first 3 metres ADH. The light blue/grey range shows the higher elevations |
Rosebud West, Tootgarook and Rye are shown to be built on recent bay parallel dune deposits The blue/grey wobbly bits is "The Cups" dune formation of Fingal, St Andrews Beach and the Rye back beach area The cups depressions have no cold air drainage lines and can be frost hollows, which is why the lower areas were once a form of Calcareous Swale Grassland with scattered Banksias and Sheoaks, now very rare, with the Moonah trees on the higher areas The pale blue to the right is the Boneo Plains with the Rosebud acid sands formations to the north. Note the freeway's end |
Tootgarook Swamp
In these images the houses and vegetation are stripped away and the actual ground level is shown
The large white topped area below is the old Tootgarook tip, closed in the late 80's. The whole site, including the sports ovals, has decades of rubbish a couple of metres thick (dumped directly into the swamp and topped by a metre or two of "clean fill"
The Chinamans Creek artificial drain runs down the centre of the swamp
The 2nd most recent natural bay outlet, now blocked by the tip infill, can be seen at left following the parallel dune formation just above the sports ground on the tip. The small constructed Tootgarook Wetland Reserve is the green bit just above the big football oval. As you can see, an immense amount of this wetland was filled in by the Flinders Shire
Also clearly seen, the swamp extended over Eastbourne Road almost to the beach just to the west of the end of Boneo Road and the Village Glen retirement development lies in a swamp That area was known to old residents as Pleurisy Plains, and is now protected by a levy (the Elizabeth Avenue road formation)
The southern end of the swamp extends over Limestone Road, 4 kilometers south of the levy
The Gunnamatta Outfall pipeline easement is shown as a diagonal orange gash running through the Boneo Treatment Plant
The pink colour in the swamp proper and it's edges was/is Gippsland Plains Grassland EVC 132, some patches still intact
To see great photographs of the swamp and other stuff, see the Friends of the Toogarook Wetland Reserves Facebook page (and please click the like button if you're Facebook person). Supporter numbers assists advocacy and the swamp needs all the support it can get
The large white topped area below is the old Tootgarook tip, closed in the late 80's. The whole site, including the sports ovals, has decades of rubbish a couple of metres thick (dumped directly into the swamp and topped by a metre or two of "clean fill"
The Chinamans Creek artificial drain runs down the centre of the swamp
The 2nd most recent natural bay outlet, now blocked by the tip infill, can be seen at left following the parallel dune formation just above the sports ground on the tip. The small constructed Tootgarook Wetland Reserve is the green bit just above the big football oval. As you can see, an immense amount of this wetland was filled in by the Flinders Shire
Also clearly seen, the swamp extended over Eastbourne Road almost to the beach just to the west of the end of Boneo Road and the Village Glen retirement development lies in a swamp That area was known to old residents as Pleurisy Plains, and is now protected by a levy (the Elizabeth Avenue road formation)
The southern end of the swamp extends over Limestone Road, 4 kilometers south of the levy
The Gunnamatta Outfall pipeline easement is shown as a diagonal orange gash running through the Boneo Treatment Plant
The pink colour in the swamp proper and it's edges was/is Gippsland Plains Grassland EVC 132, some patches still intact
To see great photographs of the swamp and other stuff, see the Friends of the Toogarook Wetland Reserves Facebook page (and please click the like button if you're Facebook person). Supporter numbers assists advocacy and the swamp needs all the support it can get
Rosebud to Blairgowrie
The darker blue areas in this image are under 3 metres above mean sea level (AHD)
Light blue to yellow to red shows the elevation scale up to 20 metres
Again, the red yellow areas (above 10 metres) are generally where the Coastal Moonah Woodland occurs and "The Cups" (or frost hollows) between, before the massive disturbance since white settlement, once supported a form of Calcareous Swale Grasslands with Banksia and Sheoak, of which very little remains
Light blue to yellow to red shows the elevation scale up to 20 metres
Again, the red yellow areas (above 10 metres) are generally where the Coastal Moonah Woodland occurs and "The Cups" (or frost hollows) between, before the massive disturbance since white settlement, once supported a form of Calcareous Swale Grasslands with Banksia and Sheoak, of which very little remains
LIDAR images by kind courtesy of Dalhaus Environmental Geology
