Summary of past drilling activity within the Great Artesian Basin, Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee
Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee
E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; D0851
2017-11
Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee (GABCC) requested bore hole data from the state and territory government databases to be collated to estimate the number of bore holes that have been drilled into the Great Artesian Basin (GAB). This is to inform discussions on the legacy of the 140 years of past drilling activity with respect to the long term management of the groundwater resources of the GAB.
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).
Executive summary -- Introduction -- Scope -- Limitations of the data -- Summary of all available data -- Total number of reported bore holes drilled -- Date of construction -- Water bore data -- Drilling in areas of artesian conditions -- Water supply bore depths -- Estimated replacement value of water supply bores -- Number of bores with uncontrolled artesian flow -- Discussion -- Appendix A-E
English
Great Artesian Basin; Drilling Activity
Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee
Australia
D0851
27 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, tables ; 30 cm.
application/pdf.
Copyright
Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042
http://www.gabcc.gov.au/
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/299513
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/383677
5 Figure 1 Number of bores drilled per decade Figure 2 Number of bores drilled showing original purpose of drilling 4 Water bore data The focus of the data compilation was to establish an understanding of the water supply bore data and how this could inform groundwater resource management within the GAB. As this is the only complete sub set of the data across all jurisdictions further breakdown of the data was limited to water bore information.