Queensland

Water and Nitrogen Balance in Natural and Agricultural Systems in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland

Ecologically sustainable irrigation development

There has recently been significant discussion across Australia, both within the community and in federal and state governments, over the potential development of new major irrigation schemes (e.g. Australian Financial Review 1998). Some states, such as Queensland, have openly pursued a pro-development path, announcing the Water Infrastructure Planning and Development Implementation Program in 1997 (QDNR 1997a), following submissions from the community via a Water (more)...

Increasing Irrigation Efficiencies in the Australian Sugar Industry

In 1995 the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation funded the two-year project ‘Increasing Irrigation Efficiencies in the Australian Sugar Industry’. The main aim of the project was to develop a model for the adoption of improved irrigation practices using grower focus groups and participatory interaction. Since the Burdekin district of north Queensland is the largest single area of sugarcane that is furrow irrigated in Australia, the project was focussed on (more)...

Model for Effluent Disposal Using Land Irrigation (MEDLI) Technical Description

MEDLI® is a Windows® based computer model for designing and analysing effluent disposal systems for intensive rural industries, agri-industrial processors (e.g. abattoirs) and sewage treatment plants using land irrigation. It was developed jointly by the CRC for Waste Management and Pollution Control, the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.

Economic Ready Reckoner for Evaporation Mitigation Systems Reference Manual

The Ready Reckoner can be found here.

Assessment of ecological risk associated with irrigation in the Fitzroy basin

This project in the Fitzroy catchment in Queensland was one of three case studies used to illustrate how ERA may be employed in the management of irrigation areas in Australia. In the problem formulation stage of the ERA process community stakeholders identified issues and helped to prioritise research needs for the second phase. These were that the research should focus on the irrigation area scale and the impact of the decline of water quality on (more)...

Assessment of ecological risks associated with irrigation in the Goulburn Broken Catchment

The National Program for Irrigation Research and Development (NPIRD) has established a research project to develop and test a generic framework for assessing the ecological risks associated with irrigation systems. The framework development and partial testing will be informed by case studies in three irrigation systems, the Goulburn-Broken (Victoria), the Ord (Western Australia) and the Fitzroy (Queensland). Each case study is to be implemented in (more)...

Assessment of ecological risk associated with irrigation systems in the Fitzroy Basin

This report describes the outcomes of the first phase of the National Program for Irrigation Research Program Ecological Risk Assessment project for the Fitzroy catchment in Queensland. This project has three focus catchments around Australia, the other two being the Goulburn-Broken in Victoria and the Ord in Western Australia. The main objectives of this phase were to develop a list of up to six ecological consequences of irrigation within the Fitzroy in consultation with community (more)...