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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

7 Table 3: Number of water supply bores drilled in artesian conditions, or previously artesian, at the time of construction. Drilled date NSW NT Qld SA Total Pre 1900 107 226 14 347 1900 - 1909 205 207 17 429 1910 - 1919 56 385 27 468 1920 - 1929 94 218 19 331 1930 - 1939 105 194 5 304 1940 - 1949 72 182 15 269 1950 -1959 141 442 17 600 1960 - 1969 104 784 42 930 1970 - 1979 11 352 65 428 1980 - 1989 24 1,020 89 1,133 1990 - 1999 42 564 64 670 2000 - 2009 49 338 31 418 2010 - 2015 24 137 21 182 No date recorded 29 1 62 28 120 TOTAL 1,063 1 5,111 454 6,629