Preliminary groundwater investigations in relation to soil salinity at Fitzgerald, Western Australia
Publication Date
1-4-1982
Series Number
9
Abstract
This study investigated soil salinity problems in relation to new land releases at Fitzgerald near the south coast of Western Australia. Fairly widely spaced set of bores was established to compare the groundwater hydrology regimes beneath cleared and virgin land. A large storage of soluble salts (over 100 kgm-2 in some profiles) was measured in the pallid zone clays under both cleared and virgin land conditions. Seasonal fresh to brackish perched watertables were found to overlie highly saline deep waterbles at a number of valley sites on land which has been cleared for agriculture during the past 15 years. Salinity is encroaching where the potentiometric heads are at the ground surface. This occurs in headwaters of the Susetta and Hamersley Rivers.
Keywords
Groundwater, Western Australia, Fitzgerald (WA), Soil salinity
Disciplines
Hydrology | Soil Science
Recommended Citation
Henschke, C J. (1982), Preliminary groundwater investigations in relation to soil salinity at Fitzgerald, Western Australia. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia, Perth. Report 9.
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