DELTAwater treatment improves quality of water for cattle

When Northern Territory station managers Steve and Rebecca Severin arrived at Tarlton Downs, halfway between Mt Isa and Alice Springs, they weren’t able to grow a garden because the bore was too salty. The station’s Shorthorn-Santa Gertrudis were also refusing to drink the water at one set of cattle yards near the homestead.

After testing the water, DELTAwater recommended a Heavy Duty SL unit, custom designed for extremely hard bore water supplies with high salinity.

“Within a day of installing the DELTA onto the cattle yard bore we could see a difference. Once the cattle worked out the water was okay we started getting them coming in to drink from both sides.

This meant they could walk further to get better food and the bore that was previously useless became useful again.