Lambert Swamp is a man-made swamp originally established as a water catchment for irrigation drainage from local fruit blocks and stormwater from the area. However, as local groundwater levels rose, it also became a groundwater discharge area which caused high salinity levels- turning it into a salt lake. This caused a significant environmental issue, with the solution for the excess water in the swamp being to pump water into the nearby Murray River, causing a new problem of increasing salinity of the river. Work has been done over the last decade to reduce the amount of water draining into the swamp and isolating it from the river to turn it into a salt pan, effectively trapping the salt on land preventing it from entering the river.
Cache contains log and pencil.