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Loose Stone Check Dams <br /> ` O.W <br /> 1 <br /> ♦ P � <br /> • M P 1.O in(Mot <br /> SO <br /> , <br /> , <br /> .1„A <br /> A loose stone dom(front view). Source:FAO(1986) <br /> ter^ <br /> Loose stone check dams made of relatively small rocks are placed across the gully.The main objectives^ <br /> for these dams are to control channel erosion along the gully bed and to stop waterfall erosion by <br /> stabilising gully heads. Loose stone check dams are used to stabilise the incipient and small gullies and <br /> the branch gullies of a continuous gullyor gully network. <br />