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Salinity Distribution within County of Cypress | |
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| | County of Cypress has 2 656 saline seeps which occupy a total of 6 765 ha (16 724 ac.). The visibly saline areas have such high salinity levels that annual crops cannot be grown and forage crops have significantly reduced yields. Often the lands surrounding the visibly saline areas are also weakly saline, resulting in reduced yields especially for salt-sensitive crops.
The table presents the number and area of saline seeps for each of the eight salinity types. Depression bottom salinity is the most common type (30.0% of the saline land), followed by coulee bottom salinity (33.7%), irrigation salinity (10.8%), contact/slope change salinity (9.9%), natural/irrigation salinity (4.2%), slough ring salinity (4.1%), artesian salinity (2.2%), and outcrop salinity (0.1%).
Salinity Type | Number
of Seeps | Area (ha) | Percent (%)
Of Total Saline Area |
| Contact/slope change salinity | 549 | 675.19 | 9.9 |
| Uutcrop salinity | 21 | 5.26 | 0.1 |
| Artesian salinity | 27 | 144.18 | 2.2 |
| Depression bottom | 1 071 | 3 366.31 | 35.0 |
| Coulee bottom salinity | 266 | 2 274.98 | 33.7 |
| Slough ring salinity | 153 | 283.29 | 4.1 |
| Irrigation canal seepage salinity | 402 | 727 32 | 10.8 |
| Natural/irrigation salinity | 167 | 288.63 | 4.2 |
| Total | 2 656 | 6 765.16 | 100.00 |
Total saline area by type
Please refer to Salinity Classification, Mapping and Management in Alberta for more information. |
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Karen Raven.
This document is maintained by Laura Thygesen.
This information published to the web on February 12, 2004.
Last Reviewed/Revised on January 12, 2015.
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