This project brought together information on farm dam management with recent research on

evaporation mitigation, new case studies and improved an online calculator to estimate costs with

evaporation control methods. Activities were organised to make this information available to people

and organisations through different methods.

Overall this project has improved the quality and availability of information on farm dam

management.

The target audience for the project was agricultural advisors and consultants, Catchment

Management Authorities and Natural Resource Management Boards and farm managers.

Information was disseminated through workshops, field days, media, conference displays and direct

contact with the target audience. Over 240 people attended eight events held in Victoria and New

South Wales.

A key part of the project was to provide training to irrigation and agricultural advisors who can then

provide this information to farm dam managers. Advisors made up about half of the audience at

workshops and field days.

The economic calculator "Ready Reckoner" available at the website has been updated and improved

with three case studies and a tutorial.

Media coverage was generated through radio, newspaper and industry magazines after events and

helped to promote the information. Radio interviews were broadcast in central, southern and

western New South Wales, north-west and central Victoria and eastern and central South Australia.

A website has been developed where information on farm dam management and the online

calculator is hosted. Fact sheets, links, reports, posters and case studies. The website will be

managed by National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture when the Cooperative Research Centre

for Irrigation Futures finishes in June 2010.

Case studies and brochures were developed on dam evaporation and seepage management and

biodiversity. Brochures on the website and especially biodiversity will be made available at farm

walks in Victoria in late 2010.