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Summary of past drilling activity within the Great Artesian Basin, Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee

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Title

Summary of past drilling activity within the Great Artesian Basin, Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee

Creator

Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; D0851

Date

2017-11

Location

Great Artesian Basin

Description

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.

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Table of contents

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

Language

English

Subject

Great Artesian Basin; Drilling Activity

Publisher name

Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee

Place of publication

Australia

Series

D0851

Format

27 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, tables ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf.

Use

Copyright

Copyright owner

Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee.

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042

Related links

http://www.gabcc.gov.au/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/299513

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/383677

Page content

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.