Ordovician porphyritic rhyolite, 900 metres north of Mt Monster, 12 km south of Keith, was quarried from 1955 - 1976 to produce 548 477 tonnes of rail ballast and road sealing aggregate. This is an important aggregate resource, being finer grained and...

A seminar designed to heighten industry interest in South Australia as a place in which to search for minerals and petroleum was organised by the Department of Mines and Energy at the Australian Mineral Foundation on 13 December 1990. A number of data...

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

A pumping trial scheme from 21/11/86 to 20/10/87 evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed Woolpunda Groundwater Interception Scheme and the mechanical performance of pumping equipment and wells. The aquifer response is generally that of an...

The Blue Lake is a valued water resource for the City of Mt Gambier and there is increasing community concern regarding its longer term sustainable use. The lake is groundwater fed and there is known contamination of the unconfined aquifer in the...

Monitors were installed in seven community supply bores. The monitors measured variations in Standing Water Level (SWL) and flow rate simultaneously and recorded them in data loggers. This report describes the instruments used and the manner in...

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...

An assessment of the water resources of the portion of the Willunga Basin subject to a moratorium on the construction of new wells and farm dams was carried out to establish its importance as a supplier of water to the Southern Vales Proclaimed...

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...

A regional groundwater model has been constructed of the Loxton Sands watertable aquifer in the eastern Riverland, over an area extending eastwards from Overland Corner to the State border. It is being used to quantify the salt load impacts on the...

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...

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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...

MESA were approached by the Kooyonga Golf Club in November 1995 for advice concerning the groundwater supply and quality from three old wells still in production. As indicated in correspondence dated 23/11/95, two of the wells show signs of saline...

Potential for ASR at the untested The Levels site is identified in up to 3 Quaternary and 2 Tertiary aquifers, depending on the validity of interpreted aquifer properties as interpolated from nearby tested and operating ASR sites. A site-specific...