Alice Springs water reuse scheme - soil-aquifer treatment project, Volume 1 Site Characterisation, Technical report
Details:
Title
Alice Springs water reuse scheme - soil-aquifer treatment project, Volume 1 Site Characterisation, Technical report,
Creator
Knapton, Anthony,
Issued by
Northern Territory. Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment. Conservation And Natural Systems,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Technical report ; 26/2005,
Alice Springs water re-use scheme,
Soil-Aquifer Treatment Project,
Date
2005,
Location
Alice Springs,
Notes
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
A report prepared by DIPE for the Power & Water Corporation,
Table of contents
Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Scope of the Report -- 1.3 Study Area Location -- 1.4 Climate -- 1.5 Cultural Issues Relating to Land -- 1.5.1 Landforms -- 1.5.2 Vegetation -- 2. Previous Investigations -- 2.1 Geomorphology/Land Unit Mapping -- 2.2 Soil Investigations in the Study Area -- 2.2.1 SKM 2002 Soil Investigations -- 2.2.2 DIPE 2001 Land Resources Survey and Land Unit Mapping -- 2.2.3 CSIRO 1997 Soil Investigations -- 2.2.4 CSIRO 1969 Investigations -- 2.2.5 1968 Soil infiltration tests using a dual ring infiltrometer -- 2.3 Hydrology -- 2.3.1 Climatic Data -- 2.3.2 Surface Water Hydrology -- 2.4 Hydrogeological Investigations -- 2.4.1 Investigations of the Quaternary and Tertiary sediments in the Outer Farm Basin -- 2.4.2 Investigations of the Quaternary sediments in the Inner Farm Basin -- 3. Hydrogeological Setting -- 3.1 Regional Geology -- 3.2 Quaternary Aged Sediments -- 3.3 Shallow Groundwater Recharge -- 3.4 Groundwater Level Hydrographs in the Quaternary Sediments -- 3.5 Hydrochemistry -- 4. Alice Springs Water Supply -- 4.1.1 Regional Hydrographs in the Tertiary and Amadeus Basin Aquifers -- 4.2 Pollution Risk Assessment -- 5. Alice Springs Waste Water Treatment Plant -- 5.1 Process Stream -- 5.2 Water Quality -- 5.3 Suitability of Waste Water for Irrigation -- 6. Water Balance -- 6.1 Throughflow to the Outer Farm Basin from Contribution Estimates -- 6.1.1 Town Basin Contribution -- 6.1.2 Contributions due to Irrigation -- 6.1.3 Recharge from Waste Water Treatment Plant -- 6.1.4 Estimated Recharge from the Todd River June 2004 Flow -- 6.1.5 Water Balance for 2002 -- 6.2 Throughflow Estimates from Hydraulic Parameters -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Recommendations -- 9. References,
Language
English,
Subject
Northern Territory,
Artificial recharge of groundwater -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs,
Water reuse -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs,
Land treatment of groundwater -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs,
Land treatment of groundwater,
Water reuse,
Alice Springs,
Artificial recharge of groundwater,
Publisher name
Northern Territory Government,
Place of publication
Alice Springs,
Series
Technical report ; 26/2005,
Alice Springs water re-use scheme,
Soil-Aquifer Treatment Project,