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Tindall Water Level TindallWater Level

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Sand/Clay

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Tindall Water Level

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C Northern Territory of Australia

This map was producedon the Geocentric Datum

of Australia 1994 (GDA 94)

The Daly, Wiso and Georgina Basins are sedimentary basins. The boundariesbetween them are defined by ridges in the underlying bedrock. This diagramshows the topography of the basin floor and the relationship between the basins.

Total Dissolved Solids is a measure of the mineral salts dissolved inwater. The main constituents in Daly Basin groundwaters are calcium,magnesium and bicarbonate ions. They are derived from the host rockwhich is made up of the minerals dolomite (calcium/magnesiumcarbonate) and calcite (calcium carbonate). The TDS is controlled by therate of recharge and the nature of the rock that hosts the aquifer.

STANDING WATER LEVELWater levels in observation bores vary with time. The levels show an annual cycle; they rise in the wet when the aquifers are recharged and fall during the dry as they drain.Longer term fluctations are related to changes in rainfall. Current groundwater levels are mostly very high, reflecting above average rainfalls experienced since the mid 1970’s.

W A T E R Q U A L I T YMany bores in the rural subdivisionsalong Florina Road tap aquifers in theJinduckin Formation and have elevatedlevels of sodium, chloride and sulphate.This makes some of the waterunsuitable for human consumption. Thesource of these salts are the mineralshalite (sodium chloride) and anhydrite(calicum sulphate) which wereincorporated into the rock when it waslaid down.

NOTES:

1 DOUGLAS HOT SPRINGS - This spring issues from a sandstone aquifer that underlies the Daly Basin and is brought to the surfaceby faulting. The recharge area is some 15km to the north east where the sandstone outcrops. The high temperature of the spring water (50^C)suggests that it comes from a greater depth than other springs in the basin. It also has a low hardness and low Total Dissolved Solids contentindicating that the aquifer does not contain limestone.

2 KATHERINE HOT SPRINGS - On a Dry season morning when the air temperature can drop to 15^C or less, the spring water at 32?Cfeels hot and steam can rise from the water. It is not a true thermal spring however, as the ambient temperature of shallow groundwatersthroughout the region is also about 32^C. Other springs in the basin range between 32^C to 35^C.

3 BITTER SPRINGS - The slightly bitter taste of these waters is due to a higher than normal content of salts of sulphate. The oxygen poorenvironment beneath the surrounding swamp converts some of the sulphate to hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg gas) which can often be smelt in thespring area.

Black numbered lines are 20000 metre intervals of the Map Grid of Australia (MGA)Zones 52 & 53 Universal Transverse Mercator Projection

Horizontal Datum GDA 94

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kilometres50

kilometres10

END OF DRY SEASON FLOWSThe lowest river flow recorded each year occurs just before the first substantial rains of the wet season, typically in October or November. At that time all of the water is sourcedfrom groundwater, via springs and seepage into the river bed. This graph shows how flows progressively increase as the river passes across the Daly Basin. It also shows thatthe flows are directly related to rainfall and that flows over the past 30 years are probably higher than the long term average.

For further information contact:Water Resources, Department of Land Resource Management

4th Floor Goyder Centre, 25 Chung Wah Terrace,Palmerston, Northern Territory.

T: (08) 8999 4455 Email: waterresources@nt.gov.auPO Box 496, Palmerston, NT 0831

Water Bore

Water Level Monitoring Bore

Stream gauging station

Spring

Line of Cross-section

End of Dry Season River Flows

Dry

0.01 to 0.1 cumecs

0.1 to 1.0 cumecs

1.0 to 10.0 cumecs

BASurfacewater Catchment - Name / Boundary

G9030176

DALY BASIN AQUIFERS

FLORINA FORMATIONFractured rock local aquifers, yields to 20 L/s.Moderate sucess rate. Limestones locallycavernous. Limestone and glauconiticsandstone

OOLLOO DOLOSTONE

Fractured and cavenous aquifer, yields up to50 L/s. Moderate success rate. The aquifer isconfined by Jinduckin Formation in this zone.The inner margin approximates the pointswhere the limestone is 150 metres belowground level. Shallow aquifers in the JinduckinFormation may also be present.

Fractured and cavenous aquifer, yields up to50 L/s. Moderate to high success rate. Theaquifer is largely unconfined in this zone

Fractured rock local aquifers, yields up to 5 L/s.Minor interbedded limestone, fractured andcavenous aquifers, yields up to 20 L/s.Moderate to low success rate.

JINDUCKIN FORMATION

TINDALL LIMESTONE

Up to 0.01 cumecs

AQUIFERS

WATER RESOURCES FEATURES

Railway

Gas Pipeline

Property Boundary

Station Homestead

Powerline

MountainMt Bowman

Park or Reserve

GENERAL FEATURES

Major Aboriginal Community

Minor Aboriginal Community

Major Town

Minor Town

Roadhouse

Highway

Major road

Track

Family Outstation

Minor Road - Sealed

Minor Road - Unsealed

ELEVATION of the FLOOR of the DALY BASIN

20 60 kmkm 0 40

100 Metres above / below sealevel AHD of the base

of the Tindall Limestone

20 60 kmkm 0 40

TINDALL AQUIFER GROUNDWATER ELEVATION

Daly Basin

Flow DirectionTindall Aquifer

Discharge Zone

Monitoring Bore

Oolloo Aquifer

Groundwater level(m AHD)110

OOLLOO AQUIFER GROUNDWATER ELEVATION TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS in GROUNDWATER in theOOLLOO and TINDALL AQUIFERS

200 - 500 mg/L

500 - 800 mg/L

500 - 1500 mg/L

Daly Basin

Note: 1 cumec = 1000 litres/second

Fault

Daly Basin

Basin divide

70

Daly Basin

Flow Direction

Discharge Zone

Monitoring Bore

Oolloo Aquifer

Groundwater level (m AHD)

KATHERINE

NHULUNBUY

JABIRUDARWIN

NORTHERN

TERRITORY

TENNANT CREEK

ALICE SPRINGS

PINE CREEKSD 52-08

MOUNTEVELYN

SD 53-05

MOUNTMARUMBASD 53-06

FERGUSSONRIVER

SD 52-12

KATHERINESD 53-09

URAPUNGASD 53-10

DELAMERESD 52-16

LARRIMAHSD 53-13

HODGSON DOWNSSD 53-14

VICTORIARIVER DOWNS

SE 52-04

DALY WATERSSE 53-01

TANUMBIRINISE 53-02

MAPLOCALITY

Pastoral Station nameFLORINA

Hayes Creek

Dorisvale

Katherine

Pine Creek

Nauiyu

Binjari

Djarrung

INDEX TO 250KMAPSHEETS

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DALY

SEEKATHERINE

REGION INSETFOR DETAIL

Minor porous sand aquifers but mostlyunsaturated. Sand and clay. Recharge to theunderlying Daly Basin is restricted whereclay is dominant.

Licensed Water Bore (as of 2011)

Oolloo Aquifer

Tindal Aquifer

KATHERINE REGION

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OOLLOO AQUIFER - STANDING WATER LEVELRN 21717Unconfined

See main map for bore locations

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TINDAL AQUIFER - STANDING WATER LEVELRN 29429Unconfined

See main map and Katherine Regionmap for bore locations

2013

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RN 22397Confined by Jinduckin Formation

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Daly River at Dorisvale CrossingG8140067

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Prepared and ProducedPrepared and Produced

APRIL 2016APRIL 2016

Hydrogeologist: S. Tickell,Water Resources Division, Department of Land Resource Management,

Northern Territory of Australia

Hydrogeologist: S. Tickell,Water Resources Division, Department of Land Resource Management,

Northern Territory of Australia

Revisions and updates have been made since the initial publicationof this map in May 2007

Revisions and updates have been made since the initial publicationof this map in May 2007

Major widespread cavernous aquifer. Yields to100 L/s. Moderate to high sucess rate.Dolostone.

Cartography: L. J. Fritz July 2016

Spatial Data & Mapping, Water Resources Division,

Department of Land Resource Management, Goyder Centre, Palmerston, Northern Territory

Internet: www.lrm.nt.gov.au/nrmapsnt Map Reference: Daly-Basin-Aquifers

Dept. Land Resource Management
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