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Renmark, town, southeastern South Australia, located on the Murray River 130 miles (209 km) northeast of Adelaide. The site was first settled in 1887 by George and William Chaffey, Canadian-born irrigation engineers who had come to Australia via California. They received a land grant of 250,000 acres (100,000 hectares) for an irrigation project. The program, after a near failure in 1893, was successfully managed by an elected Irrigation Trust. The original open irrigation channels were replaced with a sealed underground-pipeline complex. The Irrigation Trust supplies water on a volume basis to landholders in the district. The district supports dairying and ...(100 of 150 words)

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