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Moorooduc Quarry 4-Oct-2006 At 9:16:30 PM Plod

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Thanks Martin, I'm not sure if the land manager is Parks Victoria or the local council but from what you have said it does sound like public liability may be the real reason for the climbing ban. The quarry has obviously seen alot of misuse over the years and could stand a bit of a clean up (rubbish in the lake etc.) It doesn't appear to me that there would be any conflict between climbing and vegetation provided lower-offs were installed at the top of routes so that climbers didn't need to top out on the obviously less stable clay covered and vegetated upper cliff faces. I have done a little research and have found that the council had an engineering survey done on the stability of the rock faces in the quarry quite a few years ago but I don't know what the outcome of that was. It would be great to get a copy of any information you have. I'm not sure about the differences in the way public liability is dealt with by local councils and Parks Victoria, who obviously manage this issue successfully at the many Victorian crags on land managed by them.