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Historical pumping test data collation and reinterpretation for the Northern Territory

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Title

Historical pumping test data collation and reinterpretation for the Northern Territory,

Creator

Ball, Nathan, Booth, Emily, McLeod, Bradley, Vornicu, Diana Elena, Northern Territory. Department of Environment and Natural Resources,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, Technical Report ; 48/2019, Report ; 48/2019,

Date

2019-11-05,

Location

Western Devenport Water Control District, Ti Tree Water Control District, Darwin Rural Water Control District,

Description

Historical pumping test data from the Northern Territory currently exists in multiple scanned, handwritten field notes. Ideally this data should be available in a single electronic format for easier access. For several years, the Northern Territory Government (NTG) and CSIRO’s Land and Water Division have been working towards collating this data. This project was a continuation of this work, where we collated data from three prioritised Water Control Districts (WCDs): Western Davenport (58 reports), Ti Tree (95 reports) and Darwin Rural (101 reports). We also reinterpreted pumping test data from the Koolpinyah Dolostone aquifer in the Darwin Rural WCD to determine more accurate hydraulic property values and aquifer conceptual models. Previous estimates had often been based on an incorrect aquifer model.,

Notes

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

Table of contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- TERMINOLOGY -- METHODS -- Objective 1: Priority WCDs data collation -- Objective 2: Reinterpretation of constant rate tests -- RESULTS & DISCUSSION -- Objective 1 -- Objective 2 -- CONCLUSION -- Acknowledgements -- References,

Language

English,

Subject

Test pumping data, Historical plumbing data, reinterpretation,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Palmerston,

Series

Technical Report ; 48/2019, Report ; 48/2019,

Format

17 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781743502341,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/755310,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/755310

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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/767596,