TY - JOUR AU - Oster, J. D. AU - Hoffman, Glenn J. AU - Robinson, Frank E. TI - Management alternatives: Crop, water, and soil JF - California Agriculture JO - Calif Agr Y1 - 1984/10/01 VL - 38 IS - 10 SP - 29 EP - 32 PB - University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources SN - 0008-0845 UR - http://www.ucanr.edu/sites/calagjournal/archive/?article=ca.v038n10p29 AB - Not available – first paragraph follows: All waters and soils contain salt. Even nonsaline irrigation waters like those of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta contain enough salt to create a hazard if drainage is insufficient. Delta channel waters typically have an electrical conductivity of about 0.2 dS/m (about 128 mg/L salt) and contain 350 pounds of salt per acre-foot of water. With adequate subsurface drainage and an average annual rainfall of 15 inches, however, neither salinity nor a shallow water table is a problem.