Salinity Management in the Wimmera CMA
Salinity Technical Reports | Salinity Indicator Plants | Salinity Provinces in the Wimmera CMA
Dryland salinity in the Wimmera region is a serious threat to agricultural productivity and biodiversity. Therefore, a multitude of planning and management activities are centred around this problem in the region, including groundwater monitoring for the Wimmera, Avoca and Richardson River catchment regions, and various community action plans, community education for integrated management, implementation activities, integrated management plans, native vegetation conservation strategies for dryland catchments, ‘Operation Undersow’, land and water management control, surface water drainage investigations and soil rehabilitation. There is only one Salinity Management Plan region in the Wimmera - the Wimmera Dryland Salinity Management Plan. This generally covers the eastern part of the catchment region, with the exception of some areas in the far south.
 Saline Land in the Wimmera Region |
The following Centre for Land Protection Research salinity risk management reports are available online:
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 | Hocking, M., (1999) What Is Causing Salinity on the Wimmera Plains, Centre for Land Protection Research Technical Report no. 53, DPI, Bendigo | (PDF 2.1MB) |
 | Hocking, M., (1998) Assessment of Salinity Risk in the West Wimmera, Centre for Land Protection Research Technical Report no. 46, DPI, Bendigo | (PDF 856KB) |
Other reports relevant to salinity in the Wimmera include:
Wimmera Catchment Coordinating Group (1992). Wimmera Catchment Salinity Management Plan, Horsham.
Wimmera Irrigation Area Salinity Strategy Steering Committee (1995). Wimmera Catchment Irrigation Area Salinity Management Strategy, Horsham.
Related Links
| Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Management Strategy. Information about the 15 year Basin Salinity Management Strategy (2001-2015) (external link) on the Murray Darling Basin Commission website. Includes downloadable documents. |
| Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Audit (external link). Provides detailed predictions for all major river valleys in the Murray-Darling Basin for the next 20, 50 and 100 years. |
| Effectiveness of Current Farming Systems in the Control of Dryland Salinity (external link). A downloadable CSIRO publication on the Murray Darling Basin Commission website. To view the information PDF requires the use of a PDF reader. This can be installed for free from the Adobe website (external link). |
| The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia website provides a range of documents related to Salinity Risk Management (external link) in Australia (including: the salinity problem; integrated salt risk characterisation and salinity risk management). |
| Information about salinity (external link) on the Australian Academy of Sciences website. |
| The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation tabled its report on June 21st 2004 - entitled Science overcoming salinity: Coordinating and extending the science to address the nation's salinity problem. A copy of the entire report is available for download on the Parliament of Australia House of Representatives website. |
| The Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website provides a range of salinity information (external link) (including major programs and initiatives, research and development, salinity advice and salinity monitoring and assessment) as well as information about the National Dryland Salinity Program (external link) (including salinity mapping methods, Groundwater Flow Systems, desalinisation technologies and the Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000). |
References
Hocking, M., (1998). Assessment of Salinity Risk in the West Wimmera, Centre for Land Protection Research Technical Report no. 46. DPI, Bendigo.
Hocking, M., (1999). What Is Causing Salinity on the Wimmera Plains, Centre for Land Protection Research Technical Report no. 53. DPI, Bendigo.
Wimmera Catchment Coordinating Group (1992). Wimmera Catchment Salinity Management Plan, Horsham.
Wimmera Irrigation Area Salinity Strategy Steering Committee (1995). Wimmera Catchment Irrigation Area Salinity Management Strategy, Horsham.
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