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Topics: 2013 floods, flood damaged farms, oswald

FLOOD fencing is in full swing in the Mackay hinterland as rainfall from 177mm to 400mm and more brought an end to near-drought conditions.

Property owners with large frontages to roads have braved floodwaters to get their fences up and keep motorists and stock safe.

It's essential to get the floodway fences fixed immediately, as cattle will find a broken wire and get out if you don't fix it.

Throughout Queensland, property owners will be out flood fencing boundaries with roads and highways a priority.

Flood run-off from creeks in the Nebo-Valkyrie area are joining other floodwaters to raise the height of the Fitzroy River and affect roads around Rockhampton.

In the Valkyrie Access Rd area and properties further down the Fitzroy catchment, beef producers had to shift cattle from flood-prone country up to high ground which did not have sufficient feed due to the extended conditions.

Rainfall varied on properties from 150mm upwards within short distances.

"Five men went out this morning with two Toyotas and two ATVs to start repairing the Codrilla fences on the Fitzroy Development Road," Di Pullen said on Friday morning. Codrilla, 55km from Nebo, has 38km of boundary fence with the Fitzroy Development Rd and 14km with Valkyrie Access Rd.

"It's essential to get the floodway fences fixed immediately, as cattle will find a broken wire and get out if you don't fix it," she said.

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Contact: EPSRC Press Office pressoffice@epsrc.ac.uk 01-793-444-404 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Simple 'blast' fences called baffles could deliver improvements in air quality for people living near airports, new research has found.

Placed behind a runway, the baffles could serve as a 'virtual chimney', funnelling emissions from aircraft engines upwards where they can disperse more effectively, thereby reducing the environmental impact on people living nearby.

Prototype baffles have been tested by a team of researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, Cranfield University, University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

After preliminary wind tunnel testing of various baffle shapes carried out by Cranfield University, an array of three rows of baffles was tested using laser scanning (Lidar, which is the optical equivalent of Radar) and chemical sensor techniques at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire. This demonstrated that the aircraft exhaust plume could be made to leave the ground within the airport's boundary fence, using prototype baffles of less than a man's height and constructed out of low-cost agricultural windbreak netting on lightweight frames.

Dr Mike Bennett, who led the project, says: "Airfield surfaces are typically covered with grass, over which the wind can blow freely. An array of baffles makes the surface rough in an aerodynamic sense. This sucks the momentum out of the exhaust jet, allowing its natural buoyancy to come into play. By suitably angling the baffles, we can also give the exhaust an upwards push, encouraging it to rise away from the ground.

"The baffles we tested were tilted at angles between 40 and 60 in order to optimise this vertical flow and to ensure the baffles didn't blow over! Although the exhaust will still disperse to the ground eventually, it will do so at a lower concentration. We might hope to see a reduction in surface concentrations of around 50 per cent at the perimeter fence behind the place where aircraft are taking off."

Long-term ground-level nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations around many major airports in Europe already exceed the legal limit enforced by the EU.

The aim of the trial was essentially to test the baffles' aerodynamics. As the prototype installation was temporary, it was constructed very differently from how a permanent installation might be made. Each baffle must be sufficiently robust to withstand the 80-90 knot blast from a jet engine, but flimsy enough to collapse harmlessly if an aircraft were to hit it. In the trial, this was achieved by restricting the prototype baffle widths to about two metres but it would be feasible to make them much narrower in a permanent installation. For full-scale use an area of baffles in the order of a thousand square metres would need to be erected behind a runway.

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DES MOINES | To reduce the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease being transmitted in Iowas deer herd, legislation has been introduced to require double fencing of deer farms and shooting preserves where white-tail deer are kept.

Senate File 59, recently introduced by Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman Dick Dearden, D-Des Moines, would increase the height requirement for fences around deer farms and preserves from 8 feet to 10 feet and add a requirement for 10-foot secondary fence. He wants to make sure the captive deer are kept in as well as prevent transmission of the disease by nose-to-nose contact between the captive deer and wild deer.

Dale Garner, Iowa Department of Natural Resources wildlife bureau chief, said the double-fencing would help.

Its easy for me to recommend that because I dont have to pay for it, he said after briefing the House Natural Resources Committee on Chronic Wasting Disease.

Dearden isnt worried about the cost of the fences as much as the cost of the disease in the wild deer herd.

Look at the cost to the Iowa economy if thediseasespread into the wild deer herd, he said. How expensive would it be if we lost our (wild) herd?

The DNR says deer hunting annually generates $137 million, has a $214 million economic impact and supports 2,838 jobs in Iowa. It also generates $15 million in federal tax revenue and another $14.7 million in state taxes, the department said.

In Wisconsin, Garner said, the lethal neurological disease has reduced deer numbers by 40 percent, Garner said.

The DNR spends more than $300,000 a year testing deer carcasses for Chronic Wasting Disease. There is no live test. Dearden said 42,000 tests of wild deer have not found one case of the disease. In tests of 4,000 captive deer, 17 returned positive.

Although fences will help reduce the risk of spreading Chronic Wasting Diseaseto the wild herd, there are no easy answers, Garner said.

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Published: Jan. 31, 2013 at 4:38 PM

MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Simple blast fences called baffles could act as "virtual chimneys" to improve air quality for people living near airports, British researchers say.

Placed behind a runway where aircraft are taking off, the baffles could funnel emissions from aircraft engines upwards where they can disperse more effectively, reducing the environmental impact on people living nearby, they said.

Researchers from several British universities have created and tested prototype baffles using funding from the country's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

After preliminary wind tunnel testing, an array of three rows of baffles was installed at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire, an EPSRC release reported Thursday.

The testing proved aircraft exhaust plumes could be made to leave the ground within the airport's boundary fence, researches said.

"Airfield surfaces are typically covered with grass, over which the wind can blow freely," project leader Mike Bennett said. "An array of baffles makes the surface rough in an aerodynamic sense. This sucks the momentum out of the exhaust jet, allowing its natural buoyancy to come into play. By suitably angling the baffles, we can also give the exhaust an upward push, encouraging it to rise away from the ground."

Long-term ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations around many major airports in Europe have already exceed the legal limit enforced by the European Union, the researchers said.

The baffles could be a low-cost solution that could be ready soon, Bennett said.

"There's no reason why baffles couldn't start to be installed at airports within two or three years."

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