Protection of Community Assets
Investment: $1 172 140
Delivery organisations: Department of Agriculture & Food, WA; GHD Consultants
On-ground achievements
- Groundwater control bore field installed, tested and equipped to avert the risk of salinity in Merredin
- Surface water harvesting and storage (dam) scheme in Dowerin
- Groundwater drilling, pump testing and monitoring for Lake Grace, Dowerin, Pingelly, Wongan-Hills
- Piezometer monitoring in Merredin, Lake Grace, Pingelly, Wongan-Hills, Brookton, York and Dowerin
- Telemetry Equipped Logging Systems (TELS) units installed in Wongan-Hills
- Viable groundwater production bore installed in Brookton
Community engagement and capacity building
- 16 editions of the Rural Towns Liquid Asset newsletter
- Annual displays at the Dowerin Field Days and Wagin Woolorama
- Shire consultation and detailed engineering design for stormwater harvesting
Publications
- Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia (DAFWA) (2009) Water Management Plan (WMP) for the Town of Dowerin, Rural Towns Liquid Assets, DAFWA, Perth
- Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia (DAFWA) (2009) Water Management Plan (WMP) for the Town of Wongan Hills, Rural Towns Liquid Assets, DAFWA, Perth
- Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia (DAFWA) (2009) Water Management Plan (WMP) for the Shire of Lake Grace, Rural Towns Liquid Assets, DAFWA, Perth
- Department of Agriculture & Food Western Australia (DAFWA) (2009) Water Management Plan (WMP) for the Town of Pingelly, Rural Towns Liquid Assets, DAFWA, Perth
Did you know?
- The wheatbelt region of Western Australia (WA)iswhere 70 per cent of Australia's salinity occurs
