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Water resources - Overview - Queensland
Groundwater Management Unit: Kings Creek Alluvium
Introduction
King's Creek is a tributary of the Upper Condamine River System and is located along the eastern margin of the Condamine Basin (4223), west of the Great Dividing Range. The King's Creek Alluvium Groundwater Management Unit (GMU) includes part of Shires of Clifton and Cambooya. It extends over an area of approximately 162 sq km. The township of Clifton is located in the south of the GMU with the towns of Toowoomba to the north-east and Warwick to the south-west of the GMU boundary. The Kings Creek Alluvium GMU is drained in a westerly direction into the Upper Condamine River by the Kings Creek and its tributaries, including Spring Creek.
Groundwater extracted from the King's Creek alluvial aquifers is used predominantly for the irrigation of grain and fodder crops and small crops. Other uses include stock and domestic purposes as well as the supply of town water to Clifton. Bores tapping into the King's Creek alluvial aquifers have bore yields averaging 12.6 L/s.
Adjacent to Kings Creek, groundwater is of suitable quality for all purposes. Downstream of Clifton, nitrate levels are elevated and water quality becomes unsuitable for a range of purposes, including domestic. The nitrate levels are the result of upward leakage from the underlying sandstones of the Walloon Coal Measures.
The Kings Creek Alluvium GMU experiences a temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of 700 mm. Approximately 67% of rainfall occurs between October and March, inclusive.
Vital Statistics:
| Area: | 240 Km2 |
|---|---|
| Total water allocated: | no data |
| Total water consumed: | 1,200 ML/yr |
| Average salinity: | 828 mg/l |
| Sustainable yield: | 4,230 ML/yr |
| Depth to top of aquifier: | 13 m |
Further Information
- The following groundwater management units also occur in Clarence-Morton Province
- Alstonville Basalt (NSW)
- Central Lockyer Valley (QLD)
- Condamine - Condamine Groundwater Management Area Sub-Area 4 (QLD)
- Condamine River Alluvium (Cunningham to Ellangowan) (QLD)
- Condamine River Alluvium (Killarney to Murrays Bridge) (QLD)
- Condamine River Alluvium (Murrays Bridge to Cunningham) (QLD)
- Dalrymple Creek Alluvium (QLD)
- Flagstone Creek (QLD)
- Glengallan Creek (QLD)
- Laidley Creek (Upper Reach) (QLD)
- Lockyer - Helidon (QLD)
- Logan / Albert Rivers (QLD)
- Lower Lockyer Creek (QLD)
- Lower Oakey Creek Alluvium (QLD)
- Ma Ma Creek (QLD)
- Myall / Moola Creek North (QLD)
- Myall Creek (QLD)
- Nobby Basalts (QLD)
- North Coast Fractured Rocks (NSW)
- Oakey Creek Management Area (QLD)
- Richmond Coastal Sands (NSW)
- Richmond River Alluvium (NSW)
- Sandy Creek (QLD)
- Swan Creek Alluvium (QLD)
- Tenthill Creek (QLD)
- Toowoomba City Basalt (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Clarence Moreton (QLD)
- Unincorporated Area - Clarence-Morton Basin (NSW)
- Upper Hodgson Creek (QLD)
- Upper Lockyer Creek (QLD)
- View the Queensland Water Resources Assessment 2000 Report
- View the 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 the Map Maker to make a map using this information.
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