Measuring and monitoring the effects of agroforestry and drainage in the ‘Ucarro’ sub-catchment

A small sub-catchment in the western Australian wheatbelt was intensively monitored for approximately 5 years to investigate the effect of an established surface water management system, and associated tree belts, on the flow of water in the landscape. This change in approach to land management attempts to address the loss of farm productivity due to water logging and secondary salinity. The paper describes the geomorphological setting and the installation of various instrumentation used to monitor the flow of water at both field and catchment scale.