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Australia Associated Investigators: Related Web Sites: Related Time Series: The Swan and Canning rivers flow through the heart of metropolitan Perth, a city of more than 1.5 million people and the capital of Western Australia. The Swan River (Derbal Yerrigan) is 72 kilometres long and the Canning River (Djarlgarra or Dyarlgarro) is 110 kilometres long. Together, these two rivers and their tributaries drain a catchment area of 2,090 square kilometres. The Swan Canning river system is typified by a large urban and agricultural catchment and relatively shallow and slow-moving river conditions. These factors as well as sandy soils and a climate of diminishing rainfall and long hot summers make the system vulnerable to a suite of environmental issues. The Swan River Trust has a series of initiatives and monitoring programs in place aimed at improving water quality in the Swan and Canning rivers and their tributaries. This collection of Swan River Estuary water quality monitoring sites is an "under construction" effort of SCOR WG137. Here we present five sites out of the 20+ monitoring sites being run within the Swan Canning estuary. References: Water INformation (WIN) database - discrete sample data. [2010-Aug-23]. Department of Water, Water Information Provision section, Perth Western Australia. Hydstra database - time-series data. [2010-Aug-23]. Department of Water, Water Information Provision section, Perth Western Australia. |