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CRC PUBLICATIONS |
Basin Leakage: Site Studies at Girgarre, Victoria and Griffith, NSW
Fred Leaney, Evan Christen
Publication Type:
Technical Report
This is a publication of the initial CRC for Catchment Hydrology
CRC Program:
Salinity (Previous CRC)
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Publication Keywords:
Disposal Facilities
Evaporation
Leakage
Drainage Water
Saline Water
Monitoring
Drains
Infiltration
Design Data
Plumes
Tracers
Seepage
Water Movements
Water Quality Assessment
Groundwater
Water Flow
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Abstract / Summary:
CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 16/00
There are pressures to minimise salt leaving irrigated catchments of the Murray-Darling Basin to limit salinity increases in the River Murray. Part of this strategy is to manage drainage disposal water in the irrigation areas using disposal basins. Unfortunately, there are no existing guidelines for siting, design and management of such disposal basins. The CRC for Catchment Hydrology and CSIRO Land and Water, with support from the Murray- Darling Basin Commission, have embarked on a project with the overall objective of producing such guidelines for the Riverine Plain of the Murray Basin.
This report is one of several being produced in this project to support the guidelines. It describes the results of intensive field investigations at a 30 ha community basin near Girgarre in the Shepparton Irrigation Region (SIR), and at a 2 ha on-farm basin near Griffith in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA). It also includes results from less intensive investigations at a further 13 on-farm basins in the MIA. The primary focus of these field investigations concerned leakage from the basins, believed to be a major factor in determining the overall viability of disposal basins as a repository for saline drainage in the Riverine Plain.
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