David Paton on the Death of the Coorong
The Presentation by David Paton is available as a podcast. You can also download a pdf version of his Powerpoint presentation.
The Water Research Cluster of the University of Adelaide hosted a public forum on the Future of Water in South Australia on 24 October 2007. I have created a more detailed blog on this event.
The presenters were:
- The Hon Karlene Maywald, Minister for Water Security and Minister for the River Murray
- Mr Chris Stathy, Managing Director of Philmac Pty Ltd
- Associate Professor David Paton, University of Adelaide
- Dr Rod Oliver, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
David Paton described the horrible decline of birds, plants, fish and invertebrates in the Coorong system, as a result of years of man-made and natural drought conditions. The result is likely to be the extinction of some species in this area, and perhaps will contribute to the compete extinction of the Fairy Tern.This presentation is available on the LitFuse feed. You can register for the feed on your i-tunes: http://feeds.litfuse.com.au
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METHOD TO RESTOR COORONG .PUT A 1METRE PIPE THROUGH THE SAND HILLS
TO THE SEA BELOW WATER LEVEL WITH A WIND DRIVEN PROPELLER PUMP IN LINE .THIS IS ASTART’ BUT IF INSTALED NEAR THE SOUTHERN END TO
PUSH SEA WATER INTO THE COORONG IT WOULD PUSH THEHIGHSALT OUT OF THE MOUTH .THE SECOND BENEFIT IS THE SAND IS SHIFTED OUT TO SEA
KEEPING THE MOUTH OPEN .
THE 2ND PROJECT IS TO GRADE A SMALL CHANNEL FROM THE WELLINGTON
WEIR DOWN SOUTHERN SIDE OF ALEXANDRINA CROSSING OVER AT THE NARROWS TO THE WEST SIDE OF ALBERT TO NEAR MENINGIE ‘ BEFORE THE LAKES ARE FILLED WITH SEAWATER.
WITH LIMITED WATER THIS WOULD KEEP THIS AREA WORKING EVEN PUT A BIT THROUGH TO THE COORONG