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In this section you will find detailed information, including national overviews and state and regional level assessments, from the 2000-2002 National Land and Water Resources Audit theme assessments.
Water resources - Management and Development - Queensland
Groundwater Management Unit: Burdekin River Irrigation Area (Left Bank)
Introduction
Priority issues
Declining Water Levels | NO |
Salt Water Intrusion | YES |
SALINISATION | |
Dryland | NO |
Irrigation | NO |
Groundwater | YES |
Surface Water | NO |
Urban | NO |
Point Source Pollution | NO |
Diffuse Source Pollution | NO |
Subsidence | NO |
Artificial Recharge (ML/yr) | no data |
Ecosystems Protection | YES |
Surface Water Interaction | NO |
Management Plans | NO |
Defined Minimum Water Level | NO |
Comment: A shallow water table and rising water levels are other priority issues within the Burdekin River Irrigation Area (Left Bank) GMU.
Comments on Management Responses
See QLD Water Resources Assessment 2000 Technical Report for a review of management responses.
Assessment of monitoring in Burdekin River Irrigation Area (Left Bank)
See QLD Water Resources Assessment 2000 Technical Report for a review of monitoring.
What is the estimated demand for groundwater?
| Sustainable Yield | |
|---|---|
Comment about sustainable yield figure: | An assessment of 40000 Ml/yr for sustainable yield was made in 2000 based upon initial water balance methods and is to be revised with the completion of the groundwater model. |
Sustainable yield: | ML/yr |
Threshold year for sustainable year: | 1,990 |
Abstraction Volume 1996/1997: | 29,130 ML |
Current Resource development categorisation: | |
| Estimated Use in 2020 | |
|---|---|
Comment: | |
Estimated use in 2020: | 40,000 ML |
% change from 1996/1997: | 38 |
Resource development categorisation: | |
| Estimated in 2050 | |
|---|---|
Comment: | |
Estimated use in 2050: | 40,000 ML |
% change from 1996/1997: | 38 |
Resource development categorisation: |
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What assumptions were used in this assessment
No further information about assumptions used in this assessment was provided by QLD.
Data Availability,Gaps and Recommendations
Data Availablility:
In excess of 1400 observation bores, both private and State owned, are located within the Burdekin River Irrigation Area (left bank) GMU. The availability of water level data is high, with water level monitoring conducted in 394 observation bores, some from 1964 to the present, on an approximately bi-monthly basis. Comprehensive water quality data exists for 545 observation bores within the GMU, with recent analysis to 1999. A groundwater flow and management model of the GMU is presently being developed to investigate the impact of different combinations of water supplies on groundwater levels.
Current Gaps and Recommendations:
Data Gaps:
Recommendations:
Further information
- The following groundwater management units also occur in Tasman Province.
- Alligator Creek (QLD)
- Atherton (QLD)
- Barambah Creek (QLD)
- Barker Creek (QLD)
- Barron Delta (QLD)
- Black River Alluvium (QLD)
- Boyne River (QLD)
- Braeside / Nebo (QLD)
- Bribie Island (QLD)
- Burdekin River Delta (QLD)
- Burdekin River Irrigation Area (Right Bank) (QLD)
- Callide Valley (QLD)
- Cattle Creek (QLD)
- Cooloola (QLD)
- Cooyar Creek (QLD)
- Cressbrook Creek (QLD)
- Dawson River (Cracow to Theodore) (QLD)
- Don River (QLD)
- Don and Dee Rivers (QLD)
- Duck Farm (QLD)
- Farnborough / Waterpark (QLD)
- Fraser Island (QLD)
- Gooburrum (QLD)
- Herbert River (QLD)
- Isaac River (QLD)
- Isis River (QLD)
- Johnstone River (QLD)
- Koumala (QLD)
- Mary River (QLD)
- Mossman (QLD)
- Mt. Larcom (QLD)
- Mulgrave River (QLD)
- Nangur Creek (QLD)
- North Stradbroke Island (QLD)
- Pioneer River (QLD)
- Proserpine River (QLD)
- Rochedale (QLD)
- Russell River (QLD)
- Stanley River (QLD)
- Stuart River (QLD)
- Three Moon Creek (QLD)
- Townsville / Thuringowa (QLD)
- Tully / Murray Rivers (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Bowen (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Hodgkinson (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Ravenswood (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Yarraman (QLD)
- Woongarra (QLD)
- Queensland Water Resources Assessment 2000 Report
- Queensland Water Resources Assessment 2000 Technical Report
- For more information about water and other natural resource issues link to www.nrm.qld.gov.au.
- Link to data available for download on the Groundwater management units and provinces - ARC/INFO export
- Link to Map maker to make a map using this information.
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