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Contents Vol 26(2)

Watching the tide roll away – contested interpretations of the nature of the Lower Lakes of the Murray Darling Basin

Peter A. Gell https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2251-5158
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School of Health and Life Sciences, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Vic. 3350, Australia. Email: p.gell@federation.edu.au.

Pacific Conservation Biology 26(2) 130-141 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC18085
Submitted: 6 November 2018  Accepted: 26 April 2019   Published: 20 June 2019

Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2020 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

The Murray Darling Basin Plan (Murray Darling Basin Authority 2012) represents the largest investment by government in an Australian environmental management challenge and remains highly conflicted owing to the contested allocation of diminishing water resources. Central to the decision to reallocate consumptive water to environmental purposes in this Plan was the case made to maintain the freshwater character of two lakes at the terminus of the Murray Darling Basin, in South Australia. This freshwater state was identified as the natural condition on the basis of selected anecdotal evidence and was enshrined in the site’s listing under the Ramsar Convention. The commitment to the freshwater state was challenged under drought when sea water was seen as a means of averting acidification when low river flows risked the exposure of sulfidic sediments. Independent evidence from water quality indicators (diatoms) preserved in lake sediment records, however, attested to an estuarine, albeit variable, condition before the commissioning of near-mouth barrages in 1940. This interpretation for a naturally estuarine history, published after peer review, was overlooked in a report to the South Australian government, which argued, without the provision of new evidence from the lakes, that they were fresh for their entire history. This revised interpretation is widely cited in the scientific literature, government reports and online discussion and underpins a watering strategy aimed at a freshwater future for the Lower Lakes. The allocation of large volumes of fresh water to achieve this condition presents significant difficulties owing to the highly contested nature of water use across the Basin.

Additional keywords: ecological condition, estuaries, Murray Darling Basin, palaeolimnology, Ramsar wetlands.


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