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Analysis of Murray Futures "Directions for a healthy future" report
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For they were-fishers Lakes
For they were fishers: Coorong
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History of the Lower Lakes and Coorong with timeline
Ian's Corner
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Summary of Sea Water Intrusions into the Lower Lakes
Summary of Sea Water Intrusions into the Lower Lakes
Issues Paper - Key Points
Issues Paper, 9 February 2009
King Tides
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Ngarrindjerri - the first fishers of the Lower Lakes
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Rediscovering the Past
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River Murray Barrages Environmental Flows
Save the Murray Restore the Estuary
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Summary of Murray Futures "Securing the future" report
Summary of the Lower Lakes Crisis
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Ramsar Convention on Wetlands obligations
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Lakes Did Contain Salt
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Victor Harbor Times 6 May 2010
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Lake Albert
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Letters and Submissions
A simple Coorong solution requiring no freshwater.
A very good fishery, 20 April 2009
Advertiser, 4 March 2009
Bird Numbers Counterpoint
Call for open minds
Conjuring up Water
Crisis Update January 2010
Ebb and Flow
EIS Submission T. Harden
Mis-information vs. Evidence
Seawater Option
The Unforseen Problem
Trigger Level
Wind and Weir
Expert panel limits options
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French Visit
Freshwater vs seawater: be careful what you wish for
Fundamental Logic
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If we were to build the barrages today
Inescapable Facts
Introductory_Letter
Keeping Murray Mouth open
Lake Albert Seawater
Lake Alexandrina vs Goolwa Channel
Lakes No Longer Required
Lower Lake Situation Near Crisis Point
Lower Lakes and Sea Levels
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Lower Lakes Crisis
Meningie, fishing paradise
Murray Futures Draft
Naturally_Saline_Environment_Lower_Lakes_Plants
Opening Goolwa Lock
Orange-Bellied Parrot
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Orange-bellied Parrots hard to spot
Plight of Lake Albert
Questionable Comments
Ramsar Lake Albert Reply
Rational choices
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Sanction the Weir
Science of seawater
Seawater saved the day
Shaping the Coorong
Socio_Economic_Impacts_Feedback
Some Fool Invented the Wheel
Southern Argus, 12 February 2009
Summary of Lower Lakes Situation
Lower Lakes Summary
Sunday Mail, Feb 2009
The Clayton Regulator
The Idea of a Freshwater driven Estuary
The Risk of System Collapse
The Times, 9 April 2009
Tidal Flow
Tidal Flows in The Coorong and Lower Lakes
Tidal pressures generate estuarine conditions
Turning the tide
Water levels below sealevel are unnatural
Water pipeline for Point Sturt
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No time for experiments, 22 June 2009
Open the barrages, 5 March 2009
Regulator Updates
Clayton Regulator, 16 August 2009
Clayton Regulator, 31 July 2009
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Currency Creek Regulator, 10 August 2009
Currency Creek Regulator, 5 September 2009
Pomanda Weir
Regulators abandoned...or in need of a variance?
Remediation Journal
Bio-remediation
Bio-remediation 12 June Finniss River
Bio-remediation, 1 June 2009
Bio-remediation, 15 June 2009
Bio-remediation, 22nd May 2009
Bio-Remediation, May 21 2009
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Loveday Bay
Letter about Loveday Bay 2008
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The Living Murray: Foundation Report on the significant ecological assets
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Water salinity changes in the Lower Murray River
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