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]
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https://hdl.handle.net/10070/858846
Western Davenport WCD Groundwater Model (v2.0) Model Design & Construction CloudGMS 73 n = hydraulic conductivity exponent The UZ gravity module employs a pF log scale for representing soil matric potential. Thus, pF = log10(-100y) where y is the matric potential in metres of water and y is always negative under unsaturated conditions. As identified above in Table 15, each soil profile is composed of at least 2 different soil types and a total of 9 soil types were used to describe the 8 soil profiles defined in the model domain (refer above to Figure 5-8). Unsaturated flow parameters are difficult to obtain from sub-surface samples, therefore, the soil texture has been used as a proxy to determine unsaturated flow parameters. Several catalogues of soil texture to water retention parameters can be found in the literature (Carsel & Parrish, 1988; Rawls, Brakenstiek, & Saxton, 1982; Schaap, 2000; Schaap, Leij, & van Genuchten, 2001). Schaap (2000) collated much of this work and provides soil texture classes and the corresponding average van Genuchten parameters. The averaged parameters are employed as initial estimates for the soils identified in the Western Davenport WCD area. The final unsaturated zone parameters determined for the WDWCD model are presented below in section 6.6. 5.2.10. Saturated zone flow (SZ) Settings specific to the saturated zone during transient model runs are presented below in Table 16. Table 16 MIKE SHE saturated zone settings Saturated zone settings Value Unit Include pumping wells Yes Include subsurface drainage Yes Drainage routed downhill based on adjacent drain levels Yes Drainage level -1.0 mBGL Drainage time constant 1e-07 sec-1 Saturated zone parameter distribution The saturated zone hydraulic parameters are applied using Geological unit codes. The distribution of each geological unit for layers 1-4 are presented below in Figure 5-9 a d respectively. Each layer is referred to by the upper most geological unit represented in each of the layers.