Abstract
A study was carried out to find out the effectiveness of low-cost measures for the rehabilitation of gully-dominant hill slopes of the river terraces in the Central Nepal. The main process of gully development on these hill slopes involved crack formation in the laterite soil in dry season and subsequent soil block failure at gully heads followed by incising bed erosion. In order to stabilize these gullies and rehabilitate the hill slopes, low cost measures were adopted which mainly comprised gabion check dams and bamboo plantation. Some other measures such as catch drains and grass plantation were also implemented. As a collective result of these measures, gully erosion rates were minimized and also the gully-dominant slopes were rehabilitated as evident by increasing forest cover. Such low-cost measures were found effective for controlling gully erosion as well as for promoting land resource recovery.
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