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CRC PUBLICATIONS |
Testing a GIS - Based Suitability Approach for Regional Planning
Trevor Dowling, Glen Walker, ian Jolly, Evan Christen, Elaine Murray
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 Waste Waters
Disposal Facilities
Geographic Information Systems
Spatial
Maps and Mapping
Land Capability Assessment
Leakage
Datasets
Land Use
Planning
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Abstract / Summary:
CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 3/00
There are increasing pressures to limit salinity increases in the River Murray through minimising salt leaving the irrigated catchments of the Murray- Darling Basin. Part of this strategy is to store drainage disposal water in the irrigation areas themselves using disposal basins. Unfortunately, there are no existing guidelines for siting, design and management of salt disposal basins. The CRC for Catchment Hydrology and CSIRO Land and Water, with support from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission embarked on a project with the overall objective of producing appropriate guidelines for the Riverine Plain of the Murray Basin.
This report is one of several published in this series to support those guidelines. It deals with relevant planning issues and the development of a tool to improve planning practices. There is clearly a balance between storing sufficient disposal drainage water and ensuring environmental safeguards. In choosing reasonable environmental criteria, the use of disposal basins on individual properties is inappropriate for most irrigation areas. It is also uncertain as to whether there is sufficient appropriate and available land within many of the irrigation areas to store all of the drainage disposal water.
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