Alice Springs town basin, review 2003
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E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Report ; no. 42/2003
2003-12-01
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Date:2003-12
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Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment
Alice Springs
Report ; no. 42/2003
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LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Hydrographic Stations ......................................................................................6 Table 2 Estimated Annual flows....................................................................................6 Table 3 Reports of the former BMR ..............................................................................9 Table 4 Reports of the former Water Resources Branch ...............................................9 Table 5 Consultants reports on contaminated sites......................................................12 Table 6 Known hydrocarbon plumes in the Town Basin ............................................31 Table 7 Summarised test pumping data, after Berry (1992) ........................................39 Table 8 Extractable volumes in zones .........................................................................45 Table 9 Capacity, Extraction and Salinity Summary of Town Basin Production Bores, after SKM (2001).................................................................................................48 Table 10 Historic production bores..............................................................................49 Table 11 Historic production bores, changes in TDS ..................................................50 Table 12 Production bores with possible reduction in drawdown with improved completion............................................................................................................52 Table 13 Extraction rate against time to minimum, after SKM (2001) Figure 5-2. ....53 Table 14 Current licenses in the Town Basin ..............................................................54 Table 15 Annual usage by PWC/PAWA.....................................................................54 Table 16, estimated volumes of saline water in the Heavitree Gap area .....................59 Table 17 Bores in the Larapinta area ...........................................................................61 Table 18 Existing bores that could be monitored ........................................................62 Table 19 Proposed new monitoring bores to be drilled ...............................................63 v