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Gambier Basin investigation.
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Published: 01 Jan 1966
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Petroleum geochemistry of the Otway Basin, and the significance of coastal bitumen strandings on adjacent southern Australian beaches. Volumes 1 to 5 source rock studies.
The standing of crude oil on the beaches of southern Australia was first recorded approximately 150 years ago. This material, known locally as coastal bitumen, was used by the early maritime visitors and settlers to caulk their vessels and is the...-
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RB 57/00093 Report on site investigation railway yards, Naracoorte, for SA Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd.
The site of a proposed grain storage silo in the railway yards at Naracoorte was tested by five cable tool holes each 27.43m deep. The drilling revealed a consistent sequence fill and flat-lying Quaternary sands and clays over Tertiary Gambier...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1963
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RB 60/00095 Report on groundwater prospects, secns 158, 159, 161 Hd Nangkita - Glenridle Pty Ltd.
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Published: 01 Jan 1971
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RB 77/00080 Kalangadoo town water supply. Well completion report, Kalangadoo TWS no. 1 (MA 94).
Kalangdoo Town Water Supply (T.W.S.) No. 1 well was drilled cable tool during February - May, 1977, and subsequently production tested. The unconfined Gambier Limestone aquifer was encountered between 5.5 and 86m, and was later cemented off down to...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 80/00024 Kalangadoo town water supply. Completion report well no. 2.
This second well into the confined aquifer was drilled to 117.5 metres completed with a well screen in an unconsolidated sand interval between 104.2 and 115.6 metres. A yield of 1 200 kl/day was obtained with potential for greater yields without...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1980
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RB 80/00023 Groundwater pollution potential at Naracoorte abattoir.
Effluent is initially treated in waste disposal lagoons near ridge of Gambier Limestone which is a widespread and important water table aquifer. Consequently the risk of groundwater pollution is high. There is also risk of collapse of the floor of the...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1980
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RB 80/00053 Resistivity survey at Mil Lel, Mount Gambier, December 1979.
Schlumberger vertical electrical soundings have indicated that a plume of pollution within the shallow unconfined aquifer extends SW from the Kraft cheese factory for 1 600 metres. The plume is ovoid in shape and up to 650 metres wide. The polluted...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 81/00093 South-East water resources. Coonawarra groundwater investigation, progress report no. 1.
Coonawarra is important viticultural area. Its establishment was possible because of low salinity groundwater and suitable soil. Since 1970 groundwater levels have shown no significant decline due to irrigation and no increase in salinity. A pollution...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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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 82/00049 Kongorong resistivity survey.
A resistivity survey carried out at Kongorong, eighteen kilometres southwest of Mount Gambier has been used to trace groundwater pollution arising from an abandoned cheese factory. The high resistivity zone north of the old factory would appear to be...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1982
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RB 83/00025 Beachport town water supply, well no. 4 completion report.
Well drilled to 363 metres to the Dilwyn Formation confined aquifer system and completed as production well.-
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Published: 01 Apr 1983
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RB 78/00034 Mount Gambier town water supply - Completion report for well no. 8.
Water well was drilled to 250 metres into the confined aquifer Dilwyn Formation.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 80/00032 Hundred of Naracoorte water well survey.
Of 930 recorded wells, 550 were visited. Most groundwater is extracted from a shallow unconfined aquifer. Supplies up to 9 000 kl/day are obtained with salinity from 400 - 9 000 mg/l. Groundwater is used for irrigation, stock and domestic supplies. A...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 80/00031 Hundred of Comaum water well survey.
700 wells were located. Large supplies of groundwater are available (over 15 000 kl/day) with very small drawdowns from the unconfined aquifer, which consists of Quaternary sediments overlying Gambier Limestone to a depth of 100-110 metres. Salinity...-
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Published: 01 May 1980
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RB 86/00043 Creosote investigation. Woods and Forests Department - Mount Gambier.
Groundwater analysis from 17 wells has detected elevated concentrations of Cu,Cr, As and creosote in the unconfined aquifer at the State Mill, resulting from the discharge of contaminated storm water or septic tank effluent. The contaminated...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1986
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RB 86/00047 Honeysuckle Flat (Caroline) limestone deposit, sections 538, 539, Hundred Caroline, County Grey.
Geological mapping and drilling have proved 2 100 000 tonnes of high purity limestone. Large additional reserves are available to the south. The deposit is required to supplement depleted reserves in existing Marte quarry. The Gambier Limestone is...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1986
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RB 86/00010 Geophysics experiments over an anomalous depression - Mount Gambier - SA Housing Trust.
Geophysical surveys at the City Council Depot site, delineated the extent of large depression, used as rubbish dump. Abrupt lateral terminations of volcanic ash and tuff sequence were correlated with the boundary of the depression. No solution...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1986
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RB 84/00084 Kongorong groundwater pollution investigation.
An SA government investigation has been undertaken to determine the extent of groundwater pollution resulting from the waste disposal practices used at the now abandoned Kongorong cheese factory. During the period 1924 to 1971, liquid effluent from...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1984
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RB 88/00002 Review of Gambier Limestone - Geology, uses, specifications and production.
The Marte area, 10 km west of Mount Gambier is the largest producer of building stone in Australia. Reviews production of ashlars from Gambier Limestone with emphasis on the Mount Gambier area; coverage is incomplete for production of ashlars from the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1988
