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Characterisation and Ranking of Basins in the Murray Basin of South-Eastern Australia
Craig Simmons, Wei Yan, Kumar Narayan
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:
Saline Water
Disposal Systems
Environmental Assessments
Lagooning
Lagoons (Storage)
Standards
Determination
Murray-Basin
Murray-Darling Division (IV)
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Abstract / Summary:
CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 18/00
The CRC for Catchment Hydrology S2 project
Managing Disposal Basins for Salt Storage within Irrigation Areas
was based on the premise that disposal basins are 'a fact of life' in the Murray-Darling Basin. Consequently there is a need for guidelines to site, design and manage them to minimise environmental and other problems. However, more than 190 existing basins were built when there were no such guidelines. Some were well designed and sited, some less so. It is important that we not only design better basins in future, but also maintain our existing basins in an appropriate fashion. In some cases, we may need to decommission them. This report describes a methodology for maintaining a portfolio of disposal basins and describes the minimum dataset for doing so. It is then possible to focus attention on those that present the greatest risk and for which more work may be needed. The example uses thirty existing basins. Our selection was most probably biased towards basins we have the most information about. Nonetheless, the attempt to rank them is thwarted by a lack of even minimal information. This is despite some recent work by AGSO in compiling information on existing basins. Because of the lack of information, the list here should be considered preliminary and used as a basis for further discussion on how we manage our existing basins. This is not an output from the MDBC-funded grant on on-farm and community basins in the Riverine Plains, although it complements that work.
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