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River Murray Corridor
AEM Salinity Mapping Project
Maps produced by Kristen Cullen, Heike Apps, Larysa Halas, K.P.Tan, Colin Pain, Ken Lawrie, Jonathan Clarke, David Gibson, Ross C Brodie
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ATLAS - NANGILOC TO COLIGNAN
The Boiler at entrance to Chalka Creek. Photo taken by Jonathan Clarke
River Murray Corridor - AEM Salinity Mapping Project
NANGILOC TO COLIGNAN
FOREWARD
The River Murray Corridor (RMC) Salinity Mapping Project In 2007, the Australian Government funded an airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey and complementary drilling, laboratory analysis and interpretation servicesto provide information in relation to salinity management issues along a 450km reach of the Murray River in Victoria and New South Wales, from Torrumbarry Weirin the east, westward to the South Australian border. The ‘River Murray Corridor (RMC) Salinity Mapping Project’ was undertaken underthe auspices of the Community Stream Sampling and Salinity Mapping Project(CSS&MP), administered through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry(DAFF) and managed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS). The Project was establishedin line with the scientific and technical standards established for salinity mapping in theAustralian landscape context by the Joint Academies of Science (Spies and Woodgate, 2005). The project area contains iconic wetland areas, national and state forest parks, irrigationand dryland farming assets and the Murray River, significant areas of which are at riskfrom increasing salinisation of the River, the floodplain, and underlying groundwaterresources.The project area is divided into 7 sub-areas to assist with handling the large datasetsizes and to reflect changes in landscapes and salinity management issues withinthe overall project area. The 7 project sub-areas (from west to east) are: 1.Lindsay-Wallpolla/Lake Victoria Anabranch 2.Nangiloc to Colignan (including Hattah Lakes) 3.Liparoo to Robinvale 4.Robinvale to Boundary Bend 5.Boundary Bend to Nyah 6.Speewa Irrigation District 7.Barr Creek to Gunbower Island Geoscience Australia (GA) was sub-contracted to provide geophysical contractmanagement and AEM inversion services for the RMC project, while the CooperativeResearch Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME)was sub-contracted to GA for the provision of geomorphic and surface materialsmapping, and AEM salinity mapping and interpretation services. AEM data acquisition,drilling services, the geological description of borehole materials, and boreholegeophysical logging services were carried out by private contractors, and manageddirectly by BRS. The laboratory analysis of pore fluids from drillcore materials wascarried out by BRS, who also produced new water table maps for the project area. This atlas, for Nangiloc to Colignan is one in a series of 7 sub-area atlas products forthe RMC project area. The atlas contains representative map interpretation products that are provided in full within the complementary GIS for each area (Apps et al., 2009a-f).