How was this assessment undertaken in the Kingston Coast Surface Water Management Area?
Development Potential: The principle data source currently available to the State for use in assessing development potential for irrigation is farm dam growth. Unfortunately this information could not be broken down to a surface water management area (SWMA) level but was only available on a State scale. Due to the coarsness of this information it was not considered to be particularly suitable as a tool at SWMA level for estimating growth. The other source of information available was from a joint study project by the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering and the Insitution of Engineers Australia titled “Water and the Australian Economy April 1999″(ISBN 1875618 50 3). This report arrived at a growth rate of 1.3 percent for Tasmania. It was found that the information available on farm dam growth in the State and some landholder estimates in relation to there future irrigation requirements generally supported this growth. Currently in the State there are a number of
