Great Artesian Basin monitoring network implementation (Stage 2)
Details:
Title
Great Artesian Basin monitoring network implementation (Stage 2),
Other title
Draft Great Artesian Basin monitoring network implementation (Stage 2) : final report,
Creator
Yin Foo, D. A,
Northern Territory. Department of Land Resource Management. Water Resources Division,
Collection
E-Publications,
PublicationNT,
E-Books,
Water Resources Report Number ; 10/2015,
Date
2015-03,
Location
Great Artesian Basin,
Description
This report fulfils the final reporting requirement for the NT GAB Monitoring Network
Implementation (Stage 2). The project began in July 2009. In 2014/15, work to fully deliver
this project was completed.
The $112,561 project was established under the Commonwealth of Australia Department of
the Environment (previously the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the
Arts) with in-kind contribution of the Water Resources Division of the Northern Territory
Government Department of Land Resource Management (previously the Department of
Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport).
The second phase of the GAB Sustainability Initiative (GABSI Phase 2) commenced in 2004
following the successful completion of the 5-year GABSI Phase 1 program. This program
facilitated the rehabilitation of several hundred uncontrolled flowing bores within the GAB. A
mid-term review of GABSI Phase 2 undertaken by Sinclair Knight Merz (2008) assessed:
• the performance of the Initiative to date against its objectives;
• the appropriateness of those objectives for ongoing use; and
• ways to improve implementation of the Initiative now and in the future.
The GAB Monitoring Network Implementation (Stage 2) was hence developed in 2009 as a
result of the Sinclair Knight Merz review in following up Recommendation 2 - Implementation
of a basin-wide monitoring program. Information provided by the network would thus enable
monitoring of the recovery in basin-wide water levels and pressure heads through the GABSI
Phase 2 program, and provide information for the development of future management
approaches for the GAB through annual monitoring.
A key element of the GAB Monitoring Network Implementation (Stage 2) was to establish a
network of basin-wide monitoring bores. Eleven of these bores were eventually located in
the Northern Territory. Bores within the wider network were proposed to be monitored
annually between June and September for pressure, temperature, flow, electrical conductivity
and pH. Under this Program, selected monitoring bores would be equipped (where required)
with specially designed headworks to enable monitoring. In the Northern Territory, these
monitoring bores were instrumented with water level measuring devices, with one of these
equipped to provide a suite of parameters including pressure, temperature, flow and
electrical conductivity.
Each bore within the greater GAB Monitoring Network, including the monitoring bores located
in the Northern Territory were required to be surveyed to provide accurate bore elevations,
allowing comparison of pressure data between bores across the Basin.,
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Table of contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Project Overview -- 3. The Northern Territory Project -- 3.1 The NT GAB Monitoring Network -- 3.2 Bore Elevation Survey -- 3.3 Installation of Automated Monitoring Equipment -- 4. Activity Benefits and Outcomes -- 4.1 The NT GAB Monitoring Network -- 4.2 Bore Elevation Survey -- 4.3 Installation of Automated Monitoring Equipment -- 4.4 Project Outcomes -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 The NT GAB Monitoring Network -- 5.2 Bore Elevation Survey -- 5.3 Installation of Automated Monitoring Equipment -- 6. Financial Report -- 6.1 Income – Expenditure Statement -- 6.2 Financial Controller’s Statement -- 7. Acknowledgements -- 8. References -- Appendix A The NT GAB Monitoring Network -- Appendix B Bore Elevation Survey -- Appendix C Instrumentation Specification -- Appendix D McDills Telemetered Installation,
Language
English,
Subject
Strategic planning -- Great Artesian Basin,
Groundwater -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Region,
Great Artesian Basin (N.T.),
Monitoring Network Implementation,
Publisher name
Department of Land Resource Management,
Place of publication
Darwin (N.T.),
Series
Water Resources Report Number ; 10/2015,
Format
iv, 33 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm.,
File type
application/pdf.,
ISBN
9781743500750,
1743500750,
Copyright owner
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