The small Stawell Salinity Province encompasses the area between the rural townships of Ararat and Stawell.
Landuse is mainly dryland grazing on annual pasture with minor dryland cropping and irrigated vineyards. Mapped salinity is confined to at-risk zones mainly in low-lying drainage basins and drainage lines. The Groundwater Flow Systems (GFSs) in the area consist of local to intermediate scale systems in weathered, fractured Palaeozoic rocks and local to intermediate scale GFSs in weathered granite and colluvium. Many creeks and streams are deeply eroded and incised and sheet erosion is common. It is possible that land stripped bare of soil by erosion following land clearing last century may have been mistakenly mapped as saline, but the relationship between eroded and saline areas is unclear in many areas.
Tree planting has been attempted to mitigate salinity, particularly at Landsbourgh and works to alleviate erosion have also been employed.
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