Murray-Darling Basin Authority – Basin Salinity Management Strategy Annual Reporting and Audit

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Coverage

The map below highlights the areas where sampling has occurred for this program.

Click on the map to view information about the drainage basins in this area.

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Balonne-Condamine

Border Rivers

Moonie

Paroo

Acid sulphate soil close up

Photo by DNRM

Salt affected irrigation channel

Photo by DNRM

Drilling core holes in Border Rivers to measure regolith salt store

Photo by DNRM

2001

The Basin Salinity Management Strategy is current until 2015. The Basin Water Quality and Salinity Management Plan will extend to 2024.

To monitor its compliance with end-of-valley salinity targets and present this information in an audited annual report.

Lead organisation

Department of Natural Resources and Mines

Contact details of lead organisation: water.monitoring@dnrm.qld.gov.au

Partner organisations

Murray-Darling Basin Authority and jurisdictions in the Murray-Darling Basin

• Total daily stream flow (ML)
• Mean daily electrical conductivity
• Date of record

Basin scale

Ten end-of-valley salinity target sites located in the Queensland and northern New South Wales sections of the Murray-Darling Basin. These sites are capable of capturing most end-of-valley flows and are equipped with time-series flow and electrical conductivity monitoring. Four interpretive sites are also used. End-of-valley sites are located downstream of irrigation.

Daily (continuous loggers)

2011-12 Annual Report (PDF)

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2013) Murray-Darling Basin Authority – Basin Salinity Management Strategy Annual Reporting and Audit, WetlandInfo website, accessed 14 April 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/assessment/monitoring/current-and-future-monitoring/murray-darling-basin-authority-basin-salinity.html