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Cost Comparisons of On-farm and Community Basins - Case Studies of the MIA and Wakool
Jai Singh, 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:
Irrigation
Drainage Water
Saline Water
Disposal Facilities
Scale
Design Data
Cost Effectiveness
Costs
Farms and Farming
Community Participation
Pipe Networks
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Abstract / Summary:
CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 14/00
To limit salinity increases in the River Murray, there are pressures to minimise salt leaving irrigated catchments of the Murray-Darling Basin. Part of this strategy is to manage drainage 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 deals with the costs of designing and managing basins, ranging from on-farm, for use by that single property, to community basins used by several properties. While costs for constructing community basins are lower than for on-farm basins, there are costs incurred in transporting drainage water to the basin. The result is that the cheaper option will depend on a number of site aspects, including whether land needs to be purchased for the community basin. Cost is not the driving issue in the Land and Water Management Planning process for choosing widespread adoption of one option over the other.
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