Contents
1.1 Murray-Darling Basin Commission
1.2 Basin Salinity Management Strategy
1.3 Basin Strategy approach
1.4 Roles and responsibilities
1.5 Strategic decisions
1.6 BSMS Implementation Working Group considerations
2 Independent Audit Group for Salinity
2.1 Role of the audit
2.2 Independent Audit Group for Salinity 2005–06 Report: Executive summary
3.1 Morgan salinity
3.2 Murray River salinity profile
3.3 BSMS Salinity Registers
3.4 Rolling five-year reviews
3.5 Joint investment in salt interception works
3.6 Models and tools for assessment of Registers and end-of-valley targets reporting
3.7 Assessment of the salinity impacts of water trade
3.8 Flow and salinity relationships – The Living Murray
4.1 Overall valley management
4.2 End-of-valley outcomes
4.3 Salinity outcomes from Catchment Actions – national investment
4.4 Programs of Actions by Basin States
5 Challenges for Basin salinity management
5.1 TLM/BSMS linkages
5.2 Impacts of water trade
5.3 Catchment planning and implementation
5.4 Post-flood salt accession
5.5 Streamlining processes for more effective outcomes
6.1 Mid-Term Review
6.2 Assessment of salinity impacts of irrigation
6.3 Salt interception works
6.4 In-stream salinity management
6.5 Ensuring Basin-wide accountability
6.6 Capacity building and other activities
I Basin Salinity Management Strategy Implementation Working Group
II Basin Salinity Management Strategy Salinity Registers (as at 15 December 2006)
III Flow and salinity data – end-of-valley target sites
IV Salinity publications and reports
V BSMS 2005–06 related reports
List of tables
Table 1. BSMS implementation scorecard, 2005–06
Table 2. Average, median and 95th percentile salinity values and proportion of time
where salinities exceeded 800 EC units for critical periods at Morgan
Table 3. Summary of Salinity Registers A and B as at 15 December 2006 for actions
prior to 30 June 2006 (30 year Average Benefits $m/year)
Table 4. Confidence levels of values in Salinity Register A and Register B as at 15 December 2006
Table 5. Status of rolling five-year reviews – Register A items at 30 June 2006
Table 6. Status of rolling five-year valley reviews – Register B items at 30 June 2006
Table 7. Joint salt interception scheme performance reporting 2005–06
Table 8. Construction schedule – expected year of completion/commission of salt
interception schemes and expected EC credits
Table 9. BSMS End-of-Valley Baseline Conditions
Table 10. Availability of monitoring data by year 2000–06
Table 11. Sites with less than 95 per cent data availability for 2005–06
Table 12. Comparison of 2005–06 in-stream salinity (EC) data to long-term statistics
Table 13. Comparison of 2005–06 calculated salt load data to long-term statistics
Table 14. BSMS Implementation Working Group meetings 2005–06
Table 15. BSMS IWG and Task Forces meetings 2005–06
Table 16. BSMS Implementation Working Group activities 2005–06
List of figures
Figure 1. Basin Salinity Management Strategy decision making processes and links
Figure 2. The effect of salinity management in the Murray-Darling Basin – July 2005 to June 2006
Figure 3. River Murray salinity profile – Baseline medians for the Benchmark Period
of 1975–2000 and 2005–06 medians
Figure 4. Salt interception – Joint Works Program delivery of EC benefits (revised November 2006)