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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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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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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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