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RB 82/00051 Management proposal for the groundwater resources along the State border of South Australia and Victoria.
The groundwater licensing authorities in the States of South Australia and Victoria recognize that future development of the lands adjacent to the border will depend on the groundwater resource underlying those lands. In most areas there, shallow...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 83/00017 SADME Oakvale 1. Well completion report.
The fully rotary cored Oakvale 1 vertical stratigraphic drillhole was drilled by SADME Regional Geology Branch, 13 km east of Oakvale Station homestead in the north of the Murray Basin within SA, over the period 22/5/1981 to 10/6/1981. The hole was...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 88/00014 Petroleum exploration and development in South Australia (5th edition).
In South Australia since 1958, 140,400 km of seismic have been recorded (75,500 onshore) and 882 wells drilled (of which 16 are offshore wildcats and 238 are development wells). Exploration and development have taken place in three distinct phases....-
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Published: 01 Mar 1988
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RB 78/00089;Env 02960 Appraisal drilling results, Anna Coalfield, Murray Basin, South Australia.
At the Anna Coalfield, the November 1976 appraisal drilling by SADME of 2 rotary mud, partly cored vertical boreholes with a total penetration of 159.62 m (including 28.36 m of continuous ?NQ coring over the coal-bearing section) has confirmed the...-
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Published: 11 May 1978
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RB 82/00098 Murray Basin hydrogeological investigations progress report no. 4 - Upper Murray and northern region.
The drilling of a further 16 rotary holes, as part of continuing investigations by the E&WS Department into the effect of groundwater on River Murray salinity, has indicated that the northern and north-western limits of the Tertiary limestone...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 86/00066 New record and tectonic implications of a high-level Lepidocyclina-bearing limestone, Bremer Valley, eastern Mount Lofty Ranges.
The distinctive large, benthonic, shallow marine foraminifer Lepidocyclina howchini has been identified, with an associated benthonic microfauna, in limestone in a borrow pit located in the Bremer Valley 3 km east of Kanmantoo. The limestone is a...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1986
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RB 80/00141 Angas-Bremer irrigation area groundwater recharge.
Within the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area, the source of the groundwater being taken currently primarily for the large-scale irrigation of lucerne fodder crops is the confined low salinity Tertiary limestone aquifer. The extent of pumping from bores...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1980
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RB 90/00078 South Australia - Exploration Towards 2000. Seminar, Adelaide, 13 December, 1990. Extended abstracts.
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...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 96/00015 Regional groundwater impacts of irrigation development in the eastern Riverland.
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...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1995
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RB 96/00014 Clayton water supply - Aquifer storage and recovery investigation.
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...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 99/00002 Risk assessment modelling for irrigation development in the Angas Bremer irrigation area.
Recently imposed water resource management controls in the Angas - Bremer Irrigation Area have reduced the local irrigators' aggregate groundwater allocation to within the sustainable limits of the basin, primarily by conversion of their licences...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1999
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RB 98/00006 Aquifer storage and recovery in a highly saline aquifer as a solution for town water supply.
An aquifer storage and recovery scheme is being developed at Clayton township on Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, notably as a solution to provide a town water supply in a location where blue-green algae make River Murray water (extracted via the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1998
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RB 98/00005 Padthaway Irrigation Area, South-East, South Australia. Groundwater quality investigation. Drilling program, December 1996 - January 1997.
In the main irrigation area of the Padthaway Proclaimed Wells Area, viticulture is the dominant form of agriculture, and has been since the early 1970s. Local groundwater, extracted from the underlying Quaternary unconfined aquifer, is used...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1998
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RB 98/00004 Groundwater quality investigations, Padthaway Irrigation Area. Hydrogeological appraisal of management plan. Option one: sourcing groundwater from the Naracoorte Ranges.
The main source of irrigation water in the intensely irrigated area of the Padthaway Proclaimed Wells Area is groundwater extracted from the underlying unconfined aquifer. Excess irrigation water, that is, water applied to the crops but not used,...-
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Published: 20 Feb 1998
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RB 97/00048 Loxton Irrigation Area. Groundwater modelling of irrigation management options.
The groundwater model described in this report was used to quantify the changes in salt loads to the River Murray and induced discharge to the degraded river flats of proposed future management options for the Loxton Irrigation Area. The options...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1999
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RB 98/00022 Review of open file company exploration data from the early 1980s to mid-1997, over the Yunta, Winnininnie, Anabama and Oakvale 1:100 000 map sheets, OLARY 1:250 000 map sheet, South Australia.
Significant exploration focussed on: · stratabound 'Telfer-style' gold in Adelaidean metasediments in the Nackara Arc, using stratiform or stratabound structurally-controlled genetic models; and structurally controlled gold and base metal...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 98/00025 Hydrochemistry of groundwaters in the South Australian-Victorian Designated Area - Groundwater Border Agreement Act.
Hydrochemical data from a total of 165 bores along the 40 kilometre wide strip of the South Australian - Victorian Border Designated Area were used to provide a spatial, and temporal, hydrochemical framework of the groundwaters from the three main...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1998
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RB 99/00017 Irrigation of a proposed olive tree plantation, Emu Springs, South Australia. An assessment of the hydraulic impacts on the groundwater resources using a three-dimensional groundwater flow model.
The United States Geological Survey software package MODFLOW was used to construct a three-layer predictive simulation model of the groundwater flow underlying Emu Springs, an area in the southern Mallee region of South Australia near Tintinara. The...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1999
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RB 99/00009 Loxton irrigation area. Groundwater modelling of ground water / river interaction.
A combined groundwater and solute transport model (MODFLOW and MT3D) was constructed of the Loxton Irrigation Area to determine the future impacts on groundwater levels and salt loads to the river and floodplain for a range of local irrigation...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1999
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RB 91/00015 Murray Basin Basement Transect Project. 1990 well completion reports.
During the period March to June 1990, 9 stratigraphic rotary mud/diamond cored holes with a total penetration of 3056 m, including 433.25 m of NQ or HQ cored diamond tails, were drilled by SADME in three cases and by its contractor Rockdril for the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1991
