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Flood activity can mobilise a significant mass of salt from the floodplain during both the flood and the subsequent recession period.

This study was commissioned to understand the processes and thinking of responses to the risk of post flood salt mobilisation from floodplains of the River Murray.

As of 3:30pm on 22 May, the volume of water able to be traded from above to below the Barmah Choke was sitting at 18,798.6 megalitres.

The Barmah-Millewa (B-M) Forest is a highly significant wetland on the Murray River, whose natural hydrology and consequently complex ecosystems have been significantly affected by the river’s now highly regulated flow regime.

Australia is one of the driest continents on earth. As such, many thousands of weirs and floodplain levee banks, dams and intra- and inter-basin water transfers schemes have been constructed.