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Alice Springs - Darwin Railway Investigation

Details:

Title

Alice Springs - Darwin Railway Investigation,

Other title

Water Supplies - 200kms (origin Alice Springs) to Tennant Creek,

Creator

McDonald, P.S., Northern Territory, Department of Transport and Works,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, WRA83033,

Date

1984-06-01,

Location

Alice Springs,

Abstract

This report presents results of investigation and development of water supplies carried out over a section of the proposed Alice Springs - Darwin railway. This section, of total distance 267 kilometres, is from chainage 200 km (origin Alice Springs) to Tennant Creek (chainage 87 km, origin Dixon Creek). Included in the report are results of drilling and testing of bores, appraisal of groundwater availability on this section of the route, and details of bores provided for use during construction of the line. Separate reports present details of water supplies along other sections of the proposed route. - 2 Separate reports present details of water supplies along other sections of the proposed route. - 2,

Notes

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

Table of contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Water requirements -- 4. Field operations -- 4.1 Timetable, and scope of work -- 4.2 Drilling method -- 4.3 Test pumping -- 5. Hydrogeology 5.1 200 km to Dixon Creek 5.2 Dixon Creek to Tennant Creek 6. ResultsTable -- 6.1 Summary - investigation bores Table -- 6.2 Summary - production bores Table -- 6.3 Water analyses - production bores Table -- 6.4 Additional supplies Bore location maps -- Fig. 1 200 km -- Dixon Creek Fig. 2 Dixon Creek to Tennant Creek 7. References -- 8. Appendices A Bore completion reports -- B Bore construction and lithology -- C Drawdown - yield curves,

Language

English,

Subject

Hydrogeology, Water analyses, Production bores, Investigation bores, Darwin Railway, Alicce Springs Railway,

Place of publication

Alice Springs,

Series

WRA83033,

Format

61 pages :maps, Lithology diagrams, Yield curves;30 cm,

File type

application/pdf,

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/10070/984816,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/984817