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Saline lagoons, methods of creation or re-creation - summary
Before attempting to create or re-create a saline lagoon several factors need
to be considered. The first of these concerns the reasons
for creation (or re-creation) of a lagoon. Section 4 of the Saline
Lagoon Guide describes the creation of lagoons and includes advice on site related
information needed to help develop any proposal. These include:
- Geology and geomorphology - is there an optimum location where a lagoon
basin can be established?
- Water sources - are there suitable and available sources of saline and freshwater?
- Water exchange - are there, or can there be, suitable control features for
saline water exchange?
- Are there known threats which might preclude the successful long-term establishment
of a new lagoon?
Assuming the answers are acceptable then the methods which can be employed
include some of the following:
| General guidance: At the local level, creation of a lagoon may
be subject to planning
regulations and planning permission, as a change of land use,
or as a development carrying inherent implications for immediate or adjacent
landusers/landowners. |
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