Wellington Weir

This would include irrigators, such as those in the Langhorne Creek wine region, farmers on the Narrung Peninsula and Point Sturt, and fisherpeople at Meningie and Clayton.

The area that would have been impacted is subject to a Ramsar Agreement,[3] as part of an international convention that aims to halt the loss of wetlands and conserve those that remain through wise use and management.

The Wellington Weir was officially dropped by the South Australian Rann government in 2009, primarily due to community pressure about the environmental damage it would result in,[citation needed] and the construction of the Port Stanvac desalination plant.

Significantly the local Aboriginal group, the Ngarrindjeri, performed the Murrundi Ruwe Pangari Ringbalin (River Country Spirit Ceremony), in April 2010.

They also visited the upper Darling (Brewarrina and Bourke) to make plans for it in December 2009, one week before the first of the drought ending floods.