SA : home of the new Dead Sea |
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| Title : | SA : home of the new Dead Sea |
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| Creator : | Nicholas, Bill | ||
| Source : | Independent Weekly, 17-23 March 2007, p. 3 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Adelaide | ||
| Publisher : | Solstice Media | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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'It's official. We've got our own Dead Sea. The Southern Lagoon of the Coorong is as salty as the Dead Sea and getting saltier.' - first paragraph of article The salinity levels of the Coorong vary between different areas and within different seasons. On average, the Southern Lagoon of the Coorong is nearly twice as saline as the Northern Lagoon. Coorong habitats range from seasonally fresh near the barrages when large quantities of water are being released, to brackish in the Murray Mouth area, grading to hypersaline in the Southern Lagoon. The salinity level of the Southern Lagoon is 140 parts per thousand (ppt), the Northern Lagoon is 80ppt - far greater than South Australia seawater which is only 35ppt. - Save the Murray website |
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| Coverage year : | 2007 |
| Region : | Riverland and Murraylands |
| Further reading : | England, Rob The cry of the Coorong: the history of water flows into the Coorong: from feast to famine? [Kingston, S. Aust.]: R. England, 1993 Coorong, and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar management plan : Department for Environment and Heritage, Government of South Australia Adelaide: The Dept., 2000 |
| Internet links : | Coorong National Park: ParksWeb, South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage website Coorong: South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation website Management of the Southern Lagoon, Coorong : South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation website Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth: South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation website Coorong & Lower Lakes: South Australian Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board website |
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