The Goyder Institute for Water Research’s Coorong and Murray Mouth research centre would be forced to close should Federal Government funding – which runs out in April 2026 – not be extended, according to evidence given to a State Parliament inquiry.

Alexandrina Mayor and South Australian Coastal Councils Alliance chair Keith Parkes called for funding for the institute that conducts important water quality testing to be renewed.

If it were given more money, the institute could expand its water sampling research beyond its focus area of the Coorong and across the state’s coastline, Parkes said in evidence given to State Parliament’s Joint Committee on Harmful Algal Blooms in South Australia this morning.

The Goyder Institute is a research alliance of the state’s Department for Environmen

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