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| Image number: | 2735 |
| Feature : | steplike ditch |
| Grouping : | gully |
| Discipline : | Environment |
| Year : | 2009 |
| Locality : | Maman Mobutu district |
| Country : | D.R.Congo |
| Region - tribe : | Kinshasa |
| Physiographic region : | Inter Nsele-Inkisi |
| Notice : | The gully at Maman Mobutu district developed in 2008-9 regressively along a road. At an intermediade stage of gully development, the gully haed has been equipped with a step-like ditch, aiming to prevent further incision of the gully head and hence its further retreat. But the next rain, the gully head was slit in two heads, one at each side of the ditch. Attempts to stabilize both heads by the massive use of sand bags have failed. gully management. Natural hazard. natural risk. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2735. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |