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Title: Salinity and hydrology of the Fence Road Catchment : a focus catchment of the Blackwood basin / Ben Whitfield.
Author: Whitfield, Ben. ; Western Australia. Agriculture Western Australia.
Series: Resource management technical report , ; 189
Description: 47, [6] leaves, [54] p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) and fold. ; 30 cm.
Subject: Saline water. ; Fence Road Catchment (W.A.) ; Groundwater. ; Salinity. ; Western Australia. ; Dumbleyung (W.A. : Shire) ; Groundwater recharge. ; Blackwood River Catchment (W.A.)
Notes: Cover title. Tables, figs.
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It is the clearing of native vegetation and replacement with lower water-use annual crops and pastures that is responsible for the developing salinity problem. Traditional farming practices have led to increased recharge to the groundwater systems resulting in increased storage and/or greater areas or rates of discharge. Groundwater monitoring has revealed variable rates of rise throughout the Fence Road catchment, from static to 0.6 metres per year, in a period of average to below average rainfall. Since
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