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Water resources - Overview - Queensland
Groundwater Management Unit: Myall / Moola Creek North
Introduction
Myall and Moola Creeks are tributaries of the Upper Condamine River System and are located along the eastern margin of the Condamine Basin (4223), west of the Great Dividing Range. The Myall/Moola Creek Groundwater Management Unit (GMU) includes parts of the Shires of Wambo and Dalby. It extends over an area of approximately 360 sq km. The town of Dalby is located in the west of the GMU with the town of Toowoomba to the south-east of the GMU boundary. The Myall/Moola Creek North GMU is drained in a south-westerly direction by the Myall and Moola Creeks into the Upper Condamine River.
The GMU consists of multiple aquifers of varying groundwater quality. Groundwater extracted from the aquifers is used predominantly for the irrigation of grain and fodder crops. Other uses include stock and domestic purposes as well as the supply of town water to Kaimkillenbun in the centre of the GMU.
Groundwater quality is highly variable throughout the GMU. In the alluvial aquifers upstream of Kaimkillenbun, groundwater is suitable for domestic and drinking puposes. Elsewhere in the GMU, groundwater is higher in salinity and hardness and is consequently unsuitable or marginal for domestic and drinking purposes.
The Myall/Moola Creek North GMU experiences a temperate climate with an average 670 mm of rain a year. Approximately 50% of rainfall occurs between November and February, inclusive.
Vital Statistics:
| Area: | 360 Km2 |
|---|---|
| Total water allocated: | no data |
| Total water consumed: | 2,000 ML/yr |
| Average salinity: | 1,739 mg/l |
| Sustainable yield: | 3,500 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)
- Kings Creek Alluvium (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 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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