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Influence of the Camballin Barrage on Fish Communities in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia

The Barrage on the Fitzroy River presents a considerable barrier to fish migrations in this ecologically, culturally and socially important system.

Informing future irrigation and water management at the Ord River, Western Australia

This project will synthesis opportunities afforded and resources required to pursue accreditation as a HELP basin through lessons learned from other Australian HELP basins, including the Murrumbidgee and Lower Burdekin. Results will be presented to stakeholders in the Ord Catchment to determine local interest in pursuing accreditation.

Changing Irrigation Systems and Management in the Harvey Irrigation Area

Final Report - February 2006

The Harvey Water Irrigation Area (HWIA) is Western Australia’s prime irrigated dairying area supplying Perth and the south west with more than 40 per cent of its milk. Irrigated agriculture commenced in Harvey with the establishment of a weir in 1916. Since that time, pastures have been watered through surface irrigation of paddocks which over time have been leveled and divided into irrigation bays. When this project was envisaged in 2001, there were no centre (more)...

Regional Approaches to Rangeland Planning

Rangeways: Community-based Planning for Ecologically Sustainable Land Use in the North East Goldfields of Western Australian

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

Phase 1 - Identification of risks and development of conceptual models

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)...