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Alice Springs town basin, review 2003

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Title

Alice Springs town basin, review 2003

Creator

Read, R. E.

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Report ; no. 42/2003

Date

2003-12-01

Description

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

Notes

Date:2003-12

Language

English

Publisher name

Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment

Place of publication

Alice Springs

Series

Report ; no. 42/2003

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application/pdf.

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Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/229443

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672980

Page content

48 Table 9 Capacity, Extraction and Salinity Summary of Town Basin Production Bores, after SKM (2001) Zone (1) Groundwater Extraction Volume (ML/a) Latest Salinity Reading (mg/L TDS) Bore ID Ownership Current Equipped Capacity (L/s) Current Effective Capacity (L/s) (2) 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 RN015761 PWC - Traeger S 8.4 7 63 48 52 (5) (5) 990 RN014433 PWC - Hockey S 10 10 139 105 119 (5) (5) 1200 RN015099 PWC - Sturt N 4 3 25 15 85 (5) (5) 350 RN014839 PWC - CAFL S 10 10 119 102 119 (5) (5) 1600 RN006782 PWC - Pacific N 2.8 2.8 32 2 7 (5) (5) 1400 RN015760 PWC - Baseball S 7.8 7 54 72 79 (5) (5) 1800 RN014095 Private - Golf Course S 15.01 9 78 29 39 79 (5) 910 RN014407 Private - Golf Course S 15.01 9 285 197 137 26(4) (5) RN016356 Private - Golf Course S 15.01 9 74 36 67 99 (5) RN015904 Private - St Philips N 3.01 1.8 23 19 11 16 (5) RN002875 Private - Det 421 N 2.01 1.2 7 5 0 0 (5) RN006105 Private - Casino S 1.51 0.91 37 15 0(3) 0 0 Total 94.6 70.7 936 642 715 - (1) Zone, N=northern, S=southern (2) Effective capacity is an attempt to account for the effects of long term drawdown and interference from other pumped bores. (3) Bore no longer used (4) Meter reading suspect (5) Data not available, due to a badly managed change in recording practise. Graphs of TDS against time are in Appendix E.