preliminary soil salinity assessment - Mid Western Regional Council

TABLE 1: SUMMARY OF THE MAIN SOILS OF CRAIGMORE SOIL LANDSCAPESource: B.W Murphy and J.W. Lawrie, 1998A review of any existing groundwater bore data for the site was undertaken using the NSW NaturalResource Atlas followed by a Groundwater Database search carried out by NSW Office of Water.According to the Natural Resource Atlas, a groundwater bore has been recorded at the site on DP1132580 (registered as GW013263). However, MWRC were not aware of a bore at the site. Followupenquiries with NSW Office of Water revealed that a well had been constructed at the site and wasoriginally dug out to a depth of 7.6m then increased in 1932 to a final depth of 10.6m below groundlevel. There were no other records available for the well and it is unknown specifically what thewater bearing zone was at any time. Records also indicate another groundwater bore (GW056262) islocated approximately 1km north of the subject land however no there were no records in theGroundwater Database regarding salinity or water bearing zone details for this bore.2.2 ClimateRainfall Data for the year prior to this assessment is summarised in Table 2: Monthly RainfallRecords, Mudgee NSW. Annual rainfall for the twelve months prior to this salinity assessment wasabove the average of 677mm with approximately 825mm falling between May 2011 and April 2012.PRELIMINARY SOIL SALINITY ASSESSMENT5