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RB 81/00098 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigation, progress report no. 2.
Fractured rock aquifers were investigated by drilling of 7 vertical holes and 2 angle holes in the Windy Creek area. 1 well was completed as production well with an airlift yield of 12 L/s. The steeply dipping fractured sandstone aquifer responds as a...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1982
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RB 86/00028 Leigh Creek water supply - Diamond drilling in the Aroona Dam abutment.
2 holes were drilled into the abutment ridge to intercept low salinity seepage. Flows of 0.3 and 0.01 L/s were obtained, too small to justify the construction of large scale interception scheme.-
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Published: 01 May 1986
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RB 84/00092 Leigh Creek town water supply - Groundwater investigations final report - Electricity Trust of South Australia. Volume 1.
112 wells (13380 metres) were drilled to search for fractured rock aquifers and 14 of these were completed as production wells. At Windy Creek wells were drilled in quartzite and weathered pellet conglomerate aquifers, capable of supplying all of...-
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Published: 25 Oct 1985
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RB 78/00157 Leigh Creek town water supply groundwater investigations. Progress report 1.
8 of 13 holes were successful water wells.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 71/00111 Aroona Dam-Leigh Creek geological investigations. Report no. 5 - EWS Department.
Investigation of leakage through the left abutment of Aroona Dam was requested by the Director and Engineer in Chief, Engineering and Water Supply Department, in a letter dated 5th February, 1971 to the Director of Mines. Aroona Dam is situated in...-
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Published: 19 Jul 1971
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RB 74/00163 Proposed sediment screen dam to be built at Aroona Reservoir.
The construction of a sediment screen dam in the upper reaches of Aroona Reservoir is expected to reduce the present high rate of siltation within the reservoir. To aid in the design of this dam, information on bedrock conditions was sought, and to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 76/00042 Proposed Aroona Dam silt traps, seismic profiles and engineering geology - EWS Department and ETSA.
Shallow seismic refraction traverses have been carried out at six proposed sites for silt traps upstream of Aroona Dam, near Leigh Creek. The aims of the survey were to determine seismic velocities in the soil and weathered rock overburden, and in the...-
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Published: 24 Mar 1976
