Introduction -- Physiography -- Climate -- Land use -- Management issues -- Previous work -- GABISM -- GABHYD -- Regional geology and hydrology -- Groundwater flow regime -- Recharge -- Discharge -- Leakage -- Model development -- Conceptual model -- CAIN - layer 1 -- WINT - aquifer - layer 2 -- ALLA - aquitard - layer 3 -- CADN - aquifier - layer 4 -- WEST - aquitard - layer 5 -- ADOR - aquifier - layer 6 -- BIRK - aquitard - layer 7 -- HUTT - aquifier - layer 8 -- MOOL - aquitard - layer 9 -- CLEM - aquifier - layer 10 -- BASE -- Model definition -- Working environment -- Borehole databases -- GABMOD -- GABLOG -- GIS spatial database -- Model pre / post processor -- MODFLOW modules -- Basic (BAS) package -- Block Centred Flow (BCF) package -- Recharge (RCH) package -- Well (WEL) package -- General Head Boundary (GHB) package -- Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Version 2 (PCG2) package -- Model performance -- The calibration process -- Evaluating the calibration -- Sensitivity analysis -- Limitations of the model -- Modelled flow regime -- Water balance -- Model applications -- Scenario 1 - Bore flows in selected high usage zones are restricted to 4 L/s -- Scenario 2 - All higher flowing bores accross the Basin are capped -- Scenario 3 - Most higher flowing bores are capped.ated
Summary
A groundwater model, GABFLOW, has been constructed to predict changes in artesian pressures in response to the rehabilition of pastoral bores and the plugging of abandoned petroleum exploration bores in the Great Artesian Basin
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At head of title: Bureau of Rural Sciences, Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia