From flooding, to scouring, to overtopping dams; Tasmania's blast of rough weather has highlighted a variety of water and erosion issues.
And the timing has been perfect for Queensland engineer, Grant Witheridge, who is an authority on stormwater and waterway management.
"When you have weather like we're experiencing at the moment, for my eyes it is fantastic," he said.
"It's the best time to learn.
"I mean if I have to visit a property that's suffering a drainage issue the best time to visit is when it is suffering a drainage issue, not when it is bone dry."
Mr Witheridge spent the week in Launceston leading workshops for people involved with irrigation, sediment issues and the design and construction of erosion control measures.
He says after 30 years in the field, his eye has been educated to read the landscape and the movement of water in three dimensions.
Mr Witheridge says by observing land, noticing characteristic marks of water on soil, and imagining how water will move, he can understand and remedy stream and catchment problems.
"I do almost all my work these days with just two eyes, looking at what goes on."
"The thing that's wonderful about hydraulics and water movement is that nature tells you almost everything you need to know, if you are able to read the landscape.
"So basically, just walking around watching storm water move, it tells me basically about how a street is laid out, it tells me how the land moves.
"If I see water moving in an unusual pattern, the obvious question is 'why?', because nature would not have done that.
"I'm lucky enough to have one of those minds that if I look at a landscape, I can picture instantly in my head, exactly how water will tumble down that landscape.
"That then allows you to really do more than most computers can do right now, in that you can begin to see that erosion is the result of 'such and such' an issue."
Grant Witheridge says a variety of problems have emerged since 2011's heavy rainfall and flooding in eastern Australia.
He says he's seen a number of dam failures in Queensland, mainly from a poor choice of soils or not understanding the soils.
He says he want to help land owners accept that because of constant landscape and climate change, they can learn things about their own property their fathers didn't tell them.
"I love being able to take a complex problem and reduce it to a very simple explanation, that when you say to a land owner their eyes just open up and they go 'that now makes sense'," he said.
"Most people think when they see erosion on a property, they think it's because of velocity.
"The basic elements that cause erosion are impact, gravity, velocity and chemistry.
"A chemistry problem in the soil, which is experienced in isolated places all over Tasmania, typically due to sodium in the soil and it's often referred to as a sugary soil or a sodic soil or a dispersive soil.
"That's the soil I deal in mostly on farms where people don't appreciate what's going on.
"How you manage the landscape is always changing.
"And time is a confusing item when it comes to soil erosion.."