The Murray Abandoned Below Lock 1 at Blanchetown
This is a major environmental problem. Acid sulphate soils are being exposed and salt is coming in from the Goolwa channel and increasing in the salt water lenses below the surface. There are currently just enough flows past Wellington to negate evaporation. It may be necessary to pump salt in to the river apparently to manage the acid sulphate soils but this will destroy the wonderful Ramsar wetlands and ecosystems which are very special and this will be in breach of our international agreements and internationally embarrassing.
Meanwhile the irrigation trusts in NSW and Victoria are actively lobbying against selling water to South Australia. Is this one country?
I find the lack of inaction by the SA government to be appalling also. Adelaide’s water is pumped from the Murray and Mannum and piped across the hills. The same quantity of water runs out to sea from the Adelaide plains as stormwater every year. The Government has known about the shortage of upstream water for several years and done NOTHING to harvest and use our stormwater. DUH!
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August 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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