Development of a Groundwater Model for the Western Davenport Plains
Knapton, Anthony; CloudGMS Pty Ltd
Northern Territory. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security
E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; WRD Technical Report 27/2017
2018-03
Western Davenport Water Control District
CloudGMS has been commissioned by DENR to develop a numerical groundwater model of the aquifers within the central area of the WDWCD to improve confidence in the sustainability of the groundwater resources, as this is the area within the WCD with greatest potential for intensive development.
Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT); Prepared for Dept Environment and Natural resources
Executive summary -- 1 Background -- 2 Physical -- 3 Available data -- 4 Conceptual model -- 5 Model design & construction -- 6 Parameter estimation -- 7 Water balances -- 8 Sensitivity analysis -- 9 Predictive scenarios -- 10 Conclusions -- 11 Reference -- 12 Document history and version control -- Appendix A - Groundwater level hydrographs - Appendix B - Alek range horticultural farm sub-regional modelling
English
Groundwater; Northern Territory; Western Davenport Water Control District; Conceptual mode
Northern Territory Governmnet
Palmerston
version 2.0
WRD Technical Report 27/2017
ix, 127 pages : colour illustration and maps ; 30 cm
application/pdf
9781743502976
Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Northern Territory Government
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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/842058 [LANT E-Publications: Development of a Groundwater Model for the Western Davenport Plains, version 1.1]
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/858845
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/858846
Western Davenport WCD Groundwater Model (v2.0) Contents CloudGMS ix Table 28 SW zone SZ water budget components for the period 01/01/1970 01/01/2016. ............ 95 Table 29 Central zone sub-catchment SZ water balance components for the period 01/01/1970 01/01/2016. .............................................................................................................................. 95 Table 30 NE zone SZ water budget components for the period 01/01/1970 01/01/2016. ............. 96 Table 31 Total groundwater storage in aquifers within the southwestern, central and north-eastern sub-catchment zones. ............................................................................................................... 96 Table 32 Groundwater storage in the aquifers to a depth of 100 and 150 mBGL within the central sub-catchment zone (water balance zone 2). ............................................................................ 97 Table 33 Parameters included in the sensitivity analysis. .................................................................. 98 Table 34 Average annual SZ water balance components for the Central Zone for the period 1970 - 2016. ...................................................................................................................................... 104 Table 35 Parameter bounds used during PEST optimisation. ......................................................... 122 Table 36 Final optimised parameters. ............................................................................................. 124 Table 37 PNULPAR inputs. ............................................................................................................ 124 Abbreviations and acronyms DENR Department of Environment and Resource Management GIS geographical information system GL gigalitre (109 litres) kL kilolitre (103 litres) km kilometre km2 square kilometre L/s litres per second m2/d metres squared per day m^2/d metres squared per day m3 cubic metre m3/d cubic metres per day m3/s cubic metres per second ML megalitre (106 litres) ML/a megalitre per year mAHD metres above Australian Height Datum mBGL metres Below Ground Level mm millimetre mm/d millimetre per day pF log scale for representing soil matric potential RMS root mean square SRMS scaled root mean square SRTM Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission T Transmissivity (metres squared per day)