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  • at the Stockyard Plain Basin

    When I was working in the Senate as a policy/political advisor  prior to 2006 I realised that one of the crucial aspects of the management of the River Murray  in South Australia was  the salt interception schemes (SIS) with  their associated disposal basins. The current salt management in the Murray-Darling Basin  aims to intercept  the…

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  • at Tolderol Game Reserve

    Towards the end of the Millenium Drought  (1997-2009) we visited the Tolderol Game Reserve, which on the northern shore  of Lake Alexandrina  and  is east of Pt Sturt.   We wanted to see what had happened to this migratory bird sanctuary as a result of this  decade long drought. This was more than a  standard dry time  which…

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  • Lake Alexandrina

    Lake Alexandrina

    During the Millennium Drought I did some  photography around the edge of  the shallow freshwater Lake Alexandrina, including the the seaside towns of Clayton and Milang. At the time, given the absence of sufficient flows dredging was undertaken to keep the Murray Mouth open and to ensure salt and other pollutants could be flushed out…

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  • Point Sturt

    Point Sturt

    This is the excerpt for your very first post.

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