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Welcome to the Farm Dam Management Resource Kit

This new resource is designed to provide clear information to:

• Measure and manage seepage and evaporation
• Calculate costs in managing water losses
• Improve biodiversity
• Assess options for aquaculture
• Manage water quality, weed and algae

This new website builds on an earlier ‘Evaporation Control’ site developed by the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA) through funding by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM).

It brings together resources and offers links to information from organisations and individuals with expertise in farm dam management.

The CRCIF, NPSI and the CRC for Polymers have combined to focus research on the development and testing of improved chemical monolayers to reduce evaporation losses and also smart application systems to efficiently control and monitor monolayer coverage on the dam.

For more than 5 years the NCEA has been involved in researching the Measurement and Control of Evaporation losses from Farm Dams and Channels in Australia.

As a key player in the CRCIF - ‘Dam Evaporation Project’ the NCEA has developed technology to accurately measure and calculate seepage and evaporation losses for farm dams.

Using a combination of dam level measurement and software analysis of the storage water depth over time, the values for seepage and evaporation can be determined.

Other information on this site includes best practices in Ring Tank Design, Case Studies of various Product Trials and information on Measurement and Mitigation Technologies for both Seepage and Evaporation losses.

We have also developed an easy to use Ready Reckoner to calculate the economics of evaporation management.

This site was developed by CRC for Irrigation Futures (CRCIF), National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) and National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA).