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) Physical Setting CloudGMS 11 Boundary conditions at the northwestern (downgroundwater hydraulic gradient) and south eastern (upgroundwater hydraulic gradient) ends of the domain are represented by general head boundaries and starting heads are as shown in Figure 4 for Layer 1 and are similar for Layers 2 and 3. 2.5.2. Sub-regional model The subregional drawdown model was used to demonstrate that the impacts of the horticulture borefield will not be felt by adjacent users and made the following conclusions: The farm development will have negligible impact on Ali Curung community water supply; The modelled drawdowns of the proposed borefield will neither interfere with Thring Swamp (some 20 km to the northwest of the borefield) nor with Wycliffe Creek; The Piggery Bore Swamp lies some 800 m east of the modelled zero drawdown contour and on this basis will be unaffected; and Only the downstream outlet of Warrabri Swamp at bore, RN002881 lies within the radius of influence (at approximately the 2 m drawdown contour) but this is not believed to be a true GDE. 2.5.3. Solute transport model The third model domain was constructed in order to carry out solute transport modelling to examine the distribution and fate of groundwater salinity during production pumping.