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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

File type

application/pdf.

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Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

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

Citation address

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

Page content

APPENDIX C CHEMICAL DATA AND CONTAMINATION IN THE TOWN BASIN LIST OF CONTENTS 1 Hydrocarbon pollution ...........................................................................................1 1.1 Power Station Drain outfall ...........................................................................1 1.2 BP Depot ........................................................................................................1 1.3 Railway Yards................................................................................................1 1.4 Shell Todd......................................................................................................1 1.5 Shell Depot.....................................................................................................1 SWL m (1) .....................................................................................................................2 LIST OF TABLES Table C-1 Selected data from the Wills Terrace outfall area, after Golder Associates (2001).....................................................................................................................2 Table C-1 Contamination Assessments (post 1996)......................................................6 Table C-2 Chemical analyses in the Town Basin ..........................................................7 Table C-3 Total organic carbon analyses.....................................................................37 Table C-4 Gross alpha and beta activity ......................................................................37 Table C-5 Pesticides and other organics ......................................................................38 Table C-6 Bacteriological tests in the Town Basin .....................................................39 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Total Organic Carbon, mg/L, 1990 .................................................................3 Figure 2 Total Organic Carbon, mg/L, 1992 .................................................................4 Figure 3 Hydrocarbon storages and plumes...................................................................5