Survey of 250 water wells.

Survey of 115 water wells and data on 250 wells from SADME records. Most important aquifers occur in basement; some occur in Permian, and bores in Mesozoic and Cainozoic aquifers are mostly too saline for stock.

A review of available hydrogeological information on the Willalooka - Keith Irrigation Area has shown no significant trends within groundwater levels and groundwater quality to date. Although local farmers and graziers have reported a 1-2 m decline in...

In 1979 a landowner in the Waterloo Corner area of the Northern Adelaide Plains Groundwater Basin (Fig. 1) reported that groundwater in his well had turned saline. The well had been drilled into Aquifer 'A1 (Fig. 2) a short while previously, when...

Approximately 300 wells are located on the Carrieton 1:100 000 sheet, most of them being completed in bedrock and a small minority in Cainozoic unconsolidated sediments. Groundwater salinity averages 3000 mg/L and well yields are generally small, the...

Due to substantial funding by NERDDC of this project, over 850 new core plugs from 46 wells in the Cooper Basin in South Australia were analysed to provide a database for improvement of porosity and water saturation log analysis algorithms currently...

This report documents knowledge gained on groundwater occurrence and well siting.

There is an acute shortage of potable water, for both human and stock consumption, west of Ceduna. Various schemes have been suggested to alleviate this situation, one of which is to find additional low salinity groundwater lenses like those which...

An aquifer test has been conducted on well 6727-1993, completed in the confined limestone aquifer underlying the Angas Bremer Irrigation Area. Aquifer parameters have been conservatively estimated as Transmissivity 500 m2/d and Storage coefficient...

Investigations of the Tertiary Sand and the basement aquifer underlying Sections 789 and 873 Hd Yatala, indicate that only the basement aquifer has the potential to store storm water for subsequent reuse. Well equations to describe the behaviour of a...

For the past 30 years or more, much of the town water supply for Orroroo has come from wells that are completed in the confined aquifer of the Walloway Basin. The unconsolidated, fine, silty sands of this aquifer become mobile and have led to a...

This report details drilling programs carried out by MESA at and near the Brukunga open-cut pyrite mine and tailings dam areas in the period 6/5/93 to 14/4/94. A total of 29 wells were drilled within the tailings dam, the spoil heaps and on the hills...

The groundwater resources of the Tertiary sand aquifer in the County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area (PWA) have been reviewed in order to assess the potential for their use to augment groundwater currently extracted from the unconfined Quaternary...

Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...

The County Musgrave Proclaimed Wells Area on Eyre Peninsula, situated mainly near Elliston and extending eastwards towards Lock, contains a number of small groundwater lenses of potable quality which are surrounded by brackish to saline groundwater....

Dryland salinisation is degrading land and water resources of Lower Eyre Peninsula. It decreases land production capabilities, water quality, and the general aesthetics of the environment. Interdepartmental investigations into the occurrence and...

MESA was contracted to find a groundwater supply for the Oak Valley Community. It was identified that the water's salinity was required to be less than 40,000 mg/l for desalination, and that the yield needed was 1 l/s. The investigation included a...

The Barossa Valley has had a groundwater monitoring network for the past 30 years. The fluctuating water and salinity levels from a complex aquifer system has been periodically recorded in over 200 individual sites. The primary purpose of the...

The Oak Valley Community requires a more convenient water supply. If potable groundwater cannot be found then a supply suitable for purification must be found. Current requirements are a supply of 1 L/s of water of salinity not greater than 40 000...

Aquifer storage and recovery investigations at well 6628-16623 drilled by MESA in The Paddocks wetland storm water treatment and holding site in the Salisbury Council area (Adelaide, South Australia) have been successfully completed. The work...