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A Island M Sedimentary rocks with intergranular porosity. e Jungle nc d Galiwinku re Maningrida y e 12^S la a a 12^S C B l Bremer Vernon m Goomadeer am v Milingimbi h i Island Regional to local scale aquifers g l B y Gochan in l Islands a k e a Point B Jiny-Jirra Castlereagh Howard c y u Gunn Point Stuart e E B B NHULUNBUY k AS Bay Island a n T R y Fractured and Weathered Rocks with some intergranular porosity. BEAGLE GULF Chambers Bay i R Rorruwuy Alcan Gove Mine E Yathalamarra F E Mapurru Gunyangara Sh V o Nabarlek E CATO al I Ngangalala Yirrkala B D Intermediate scale aquifers. a MARY R Yariwoi LATRAM y Woolner A Ramingining Arnhem Gunbalanya M District lywoi Bay Charles Point RIVER KAKADU NATIONAL PARK Bay GOVE R. Da NATIONAL O

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el MARY I ARNHEM LAND Wurrkal Spring R ia G Ringwood . l Regional scale aquifers. Po Bay in RIVER A t T HIGHWAY NATIONAL O Peron Island North Note: The boxes on the left give schematic view of the aquifers. Welltree PARK R Adelaide River Baniyala SEA LITCHFIELD Peron Island South Source: Ban Ban KAKADU NATIONAL PARK NATIONAL Anson Springs Cape Shield Hydstra Database and existing hydrogeological mapping. Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management. Bay PARK Brocks Isle Woodah Cape Ford Litchfield Creek Grove Hill Mary River 1 : 2 500 000 scale digital geology, 1 : 2 500 000 scale digital geology, Geological Survey, Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy. Litchfield OS KAKADU Blue Nicol Island R Hayes RIVER IV Cape Scott Burrundie E Mud Creek Emerald R ROAD Hawknest Elizabeth Springs Frances North East Downs Creek Weemol Bay Island AQUIFERS Douglas Union Isles Esmeralda Bickerton Tipperary Town Bulman The majority of aquifers in the Northern Territory are developed in networks of fractures (cracks) in hard rocks. Their extent depends on the intensity of fracturing and the RIVER Island Dooley Point Nauiyu degree to which fractures are connected with each other. Fractures are more commonly open in weathered rock and so more capable of storing and transmitting PipelineDOUGLAS Douglas Mt. Catt Spring Milyakburra groundwater. as Hot Spring D G Pine Creek Cape A Kybrook Alyangula Woodycupaldiya LY Dombey DOUGLAS DALY Farm ARNHEM Milner Bay Umbakumba The highest yielding zones are often situated at the base of weathered rock. This typically varies between 30 and 80 metres, depending on the region. Hy P la Gemco Mine nd Lewin o B Bonaparte REGION Extensive sedimentary basins containing limestone and dolomite support "Karstic" aquifers formed both by fractures and also by solution cavities ranging up to the size of r a Springs Mainoru Angurugu t y Jindare Mountain 14^S K Valley Emerald River 14^S caves. e Fergusson NITMILUK Cape Hay a Spring Bay t M River Conways GROOTE bu s O (KATHERINE GORGE) lum YLE Peppimenarti Wongalara Da GULF Aquifers that have primary intergranular porosity are formed in both unconsolidated sediments (e.g. river gravels) and in older sandstones. The extents of the former are Black Cockatoo NATIONAL PARK EYLANDT Spring Eva poorly known. The Ti-Tree Basin and an alluvial aquifer in the Keep River area are the only "unconsolidated sediment" aquifers shown on the main map. Others are shown Valley CENTRAL Wadeye FISH RIVER Hill Spring Numbulwar on the "Palaoevalleys" side map. R GORGE BLOCK IV RIVER ER RN 7595 R Claravale Maud Creek Cape Beatrice I Big V OF AQUIFER SCALE Nganmarriyanga E River Pearce Point R KATHERINE Sandy Island Florina Barunga This refers to the distance over which groundwater flows through the aquifers from recharge to discharge areas. Katherine Hot Spring Dorisvale DALY ROPER Maranboy Local - less than 5 kilometres Intermediate - 5 to 50 kilometres Regional - more than 50 kilometres Binjari Beswick Goondooloo Flying

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A K Lonesome Dove Ngukurr NATURE PARK IGHWA KATHERINE Bitter Urapunga FITZ FLO H Rainbow ROPER R ER GULF MAU Springs Moroak IV RIC ER RA Spring HIGHWAY Limmen LIMMEN BIGHT E RIV Flora Fig Tree GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE Wombungi O/S RIVER Scott Creek Mount McMinn Bight MARINE PARK River Spring Spring Namul Namul Maria Island Manbulloo Mataranka Djilkminggan LIMMEN ROPER DISCHARGE NATIONAL PARK ARAFURA SEA 15^S ELSEY NATIONAL PARK 15^S Groundwater usually discharges at low-lying points in the landscape. It Lakefield Beatrice Island can take the form of individual springs or as diffuse seepage into stream HIGHWAY beds. Recharge to groundwater is greatest in the higher rainfall zone in VICTORIA Bloodwood Minyerri RIVER Legune Nenen Downs TIMOR the north, so discharge is correspondingly greater. RIVER Nhulunbuy Willeroo SEA DARWIN Bradshaw Innesvale Many streams in the north maintain a flow for at least part of the long dry Jabiru Wyworrie VICTORIA A R N H E M L A N D season because of groundwater discharge. Some streams, particularly KEEP those with major karstic or porous rock aquifers in their catchments, flow JUDBARRA / Margaret Vermelha SIR EDWARD PELLEW GROUP Downs Larrizona Cow GREGORY BUN LIMMEN T throughout the dry season. Springs with significant discharges (more than Bullo River Creek H North Coolibah NATIONAL Gorrie Hodgson BARRANYI (North Island) 100 L/s) only occur in karstic aquifers. KEEP RIVER TINE West Island Nathan River Lorella NATIONAL PARK

Larrimah River NATIONAL BIG NATIONAL PARK Fitzroy PARK Hot Spring Island D O U G L A S Extension (Proposed) Delamere Bing Bong D A L Y Victoria River R E G I O N Another mechanism for groundwater discharge is where trees in the HIGHWAY PARK Timber Creek Roadhouse Gas Pipeline South Auvergne Lorella Centre I. GULF riparian zone directly tap the watertable. This occurs throughout the Spring West I. Banjo Western Middle Birdum Nutwood Downs Katherine Territory, but in the arid south it is thought to be the dominant process Bulla Vanderlin OF KEEP RIVER Creek Creek Creek along with discharge through salt lakes. Maryfield Port Island CARPENTARIA NATIONAL PARK cArthur Dillinya Tarlee M Gilnockie Cox River EN This map shows recorded springs and streams that flow throughout the Providence M dry season. The streams have been classified according to their flows at

LIM VICTORIA Manangoora Borroloola the end of the dry season. The classification only extends to the tidal limit, HIGHWAY Wandangula 16^S BU Sunday LIMMEN Borroloola 16^S Avago Creek V I C T O R I A so some streams such as the Roper River appear to stop before reaching Newry CH NATIONAL Warby O/S R the coast. A Kalala E R I V E R NA R IV E R N V Greenbank D I S T R I C T Bauhinia PARK I Downs R Lake Killarney Daly Waters CARPENTARIA CARANBIRINI SPRINGS Argyle VICTORIA RIVER Moolooloo O/S Highway Inn Seven Emu HIGHWAY CONSERVATION RESERVE R Springs DISTRICT Broadmere E Birrimba V Victoria River Downs Tanumbirini I Rosewood R Major Springs Amanbidji R JUDBARRA / GREGORY Yarralin I Hidden Valley Amungee Mungee Humbert River V B A R K L Y Top Springs T E Spring R R Salt Lake NATIONAL BULLWADDY Creek E T A B L E L A N D HWAY CONSERVATION O T Downs V HIG McArthur River L Dungowan RESERVE Cape Crawford A Waterloo PARK Buchanan Downs Dunmarra C Montejinni McArthur River BUCHANAN Shenandoah HIGHWAY Pungalina END OF DRY SEASON FLOWS Balbirini Coconut Spring Tennant Creek Wickham River R Robinson Greater than 100 Litres/second U Spring Pigeon Hole H River T R Bubbling Sands A 10 to 100 Litres/second c Spring

M STUART Up to 10 Litres/second Camfield Mallapunyah Mount Sanford T A N A M I 17^S Murranji Springs Photo Spring 17^S ROBINSON D E S E R T AQUIFER Mistake Creek Calvert Wollogorang Karstic Aquifers Beetaloo Hills Limbunya Kiana

Nelson Spring Daguragu Wave Hill Marlinja Kalkarindji Elliott Alice Springs Cattle Creek Ucharonidge LONGREACH WATERHOLE Tandyidgee Source: PROTECTED AREA Hydstra Database and existing hydrogeological maps. Kirkimbie HIGHWAY Mungabroom Wallhallow ROAD Lake S I M P S O N Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management. Woods Inverway Yulara D E S E R T JUNCTION Riveren Benmara Great Artesian Basin km 0250 500 km RESERVE Cresswell Downs Anthony CALVERT NI CHO UNTINE HIGHWAY Lagoon L IVE B Bunda Eva Downs SON R R 18^S 18^S Powell Creek

Lake Nongra TABLELANDS Tarrabool Lake Renner Springs PALAEOVALLEYS Wallamunga Lajamanu Helen Springs Creek Birrindudu

Sturt Bootu Creek ARAFURA SEA A relict drainage system that formed in the Tertiary era between 2 and 65 BARKLY million years ago is preserved in the south western part of the Territory. It Milikapiti comprises small sedimentary basins and narrow palaeovalleys. Corella Brunette Downs Muckaty Lake Nguiu Maningrida Gas Pipeline TIMOR Aquifers are developed in river sands and gravels that form part of the CONNELLS TABLELAND DARWIN Nhulunbuy LAGOON SEA channel and basin fills. Shallow calcrete layers can host fractured and Banka Banka Lake Mittiebah Mount Drummond CONSERVATION Jabiru karstic aquifers. Sylvester RESERVE A R N H E M L A N D Brunchilly Rockhampton Downs Apart from the Ti-Tree Basin and some palaeovalleys in the Tanami desert, Adelaide River few of these deposits have been investigated for their groundwater

HIGHWAY Bulman potential. 19^S Alexandria 19^S D O U G L A S Pine Creek Alyangula Lake D A L Y R E G I O N De Burgh Wadeye This map has been compiled from geological maps, satellite imagery and Alexandria Numbulwar GULF water bore data. In many places it is highly speculative due to the sparse

WESTERN AUSTRALIA Katherine Phillip Creek OF drilling in those areas. Mataranka Ngukurr Suplejack Downs BARKLY Likkaparta Alroy Downs CARPENTARIA Timber Warrego Creek Orlando HIGHWAY Palaeovalleys and Sedimentary Basins Three Ways (Roadhouse) Adder Borroloola Daly Waters Prentice V I C T O R I A Lake Buck Lake Rocklands R I V E R TENNANT CREEK East (salt) Tennant Creek Ranken D I S T R I C T West Barkly Homestead Granites / Tanami Operations Ranken (Roadhouse) Dalmore Downs Kalkarindji (Groundrush) Elliott TENNANT

CREEK Lajamanu Granite / Tanami B A R K L Y Operations BARK HIGHWAY 20^S LY 20^S T A B L E L A N D Soudan RANKEN Avon Downs

Rabbit Flat LANDER Tennant Creek

McLaren Creek Tanami Mungkarta

Epenarra Wutunugurra Granites / Tanami Operations Granite / Tanami Kurundi T A N A M I Ali Curung Alpurrurulam (Dead Bullock Soak) Operations KARLU KARLU / DEVILS MARBLES Austral CONSERVATION RESERVE Downs Kurinelli O/S Burramurra D E S E R T Tanami Downs Wauchope QUEENSLAND Canteen Creek RIVER Singleton TANAMI Yuendumu DAVENPORT Wycliffe Well RANGE NATIONAL Lake Fiddlers PARK Dennis WESTERN Hatches Creek Lake RIVER Papunya DAVENPORT Ali Curung HIGHWAY Imangara Alpurrurulam 21^S 21^S Alice Springs Source: Areyonga LKEDRA Georgina Downs E Paleovalley Groundwater Project, TANAMI DESERT Neutral RIVER Lake White Willowra Junction Elkedra Annitowa Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management and ROAD Kaltukatjara S I M P S O N Geoscience Australia, Australian Government. Murray Downs SANDOVER D E S E R T HANSEN HIGHWAY Yulara WESTERN Finke km 0250 500 km DAVENPORT Kulgera Tara Chilla Well Lake Wills Barrow Creek RIVER

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Stirling Ammaroo Wilora SALINITY and RAINFALL Anningie WAY HIGH RIVER Ooratippra GROUNDWATER SALINITY ARAFURA SEA Irrultja Arawerr All groundwaters contain dissolved salts, derived either from weathering of 22^S Derry Downs 22^S Coniston the host rock, from the minute amounts contained in rainfall or from Ti-Tree Nturiya Manners 1500 evaporite deposits. The latter are salt deposits formed at the same time Mt Denison TI-TREE Creek Pmara Jutunta DOVER TIMOR as the surrounding sedimentary rocks. SAN Nhulunbuy RN 5507 Woola Downs SEA DARWIN Yuendumu Yuelamu Mt Skinner 1400 Arapunya Jabiru The map depicts groundwater salinities measured from individual water Vaughan Springs TANAMI Pine Hill Tobermorey bores. Macdonald Woodgreen DULCIE RANGE STUART TI-TREE Delmore Downs HIGHWAY 1300 Lake Downs NATIONAL PARK Lucy Creek Rapide 1200 It shows generally low salinities in the north. In those areas, high rainfall, Napperby Gas Pipeline Laramba Delny higher recharge rates and a faster through-flow of groundwater leads to SANDOVER 00 PLENTY 11 less opportunity for salts to concentrate by evaporation in the soil before they are flushed down to the aquifer. 1000 Dneiper Jervois GULF Tarlton Downs Katherine 900 Nyirripi Newhaven OF The reverse is true in the arid zone to the south where salinities are highly Mt Wedge Aileron Orrtipa-Thurra Engawala CARPENTARIA variable and range up to values almost twice the concentration of Marqua Tilmouth (Roadhouse) Alcoota 800 Lake seawater (34,000 mg/L TDS). Low salinities observed in the arid zone ROAD Lake Lewis Bushy Gem Fields Huckitta reflect localised areas of enhanced recharge such as along rivers and Park HIGHWAY Jinka Bennett (Roadhouse) floodouts. Borroloola PLENTY Atitjere 23^S 23^S 700 A prominent area of saline groundwaters to the north east of Tennant Creek Mt Riddock reflects extensive evaporites within the Georgina Basin. Both gypsum (calcium Yambah sulphate) and halite (sodium chloride) occur in the rocks of that area. Derwent 600 KINTORE Papunya Ambalindum Narwietooma PLENTY Kintore ROAD Amburla The Garden Mount Liebig Indiana Ambalindum Claraville TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS (TDS) Glen Helen ARLTUNGA HISTORICAL RESERVE 0 - 500 mg/L Fresh Haasts Bluff TREPHINA GORGE Lake Hamilton Downs NATURE PARK RUBY GAP 500 Stock Macdonald Bond Atnarpa Springs NATURE PARK 500 - 1000 mg/L Fresh Irrigation WEST MACDONNELL Domestic NATIONAL PARK Ross River NAMATJIRA Tennant Creek 1000 - 3000 mg/L Brackish Oil & Gas Pipeline ALICE SPRINGS DRIVE LAR Amoonguna Lake 400 AP Iwupataka Ringwood Human Consumption INTA Caroline 3000 - 7000 mg/L Saline Todd River TNORALA RIVE Limbla (GOSSE BLUFF) Hermannsburg D Pipeline CONSERVATION Gas 7000 - 14000 mg/L Saline RESERVE ALICE TODD Numery RIVER Mereenie Palm Valley Wallace OWEN SPRINGS HIGHWAY 24^S RESERVE SPRINGS 24^S Areyonga Rockhole 14000 - 59000 mg/L Saline, unsuitable for most purposes FINKE Santa Teresa GORGE ALICE SPRINGS NATIONAL Lake 400 WATARRKA PARK RAINBOW VALLEY Annual Rainfall (mm) Hopkins Allambi NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION RESERVE Deep Kings Canyon Orange Creek Lake Neale Well Tempe Downs LURI RIVER Source: TJA HENBURY CONSERVATION PROJECT R Alice Springs Hydstra Database. OAD GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN Henbury Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management. GILES 300 Lake Amadeus ERNEST ROAD Titjikala Median Annual Rainfall, 2003. Bureau of Meterology. Australian

FINKE Government. ROAD CHAMBERS PILLAR Yulara HISTORICAL RESERVE 200 Kaltukatjara Palmer Valley km 0250 500 km RIVER

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25^S LURITJA 25^S Imanpa HIGHWAY Mt Ebenezer Erldunda (Roadhouse) LASSETE R Horseshoe YIELD Yulara Curtin Springs Erldunda Bend (Roadhouse) Kata Tjuta Uluru Mutitjulu BORE YIELD ARAFURA SEA ULURU - KATA TJUTA Andado ROAD The map shows the most likely range of bore yields that can be expected NATIONAL PARK Milikapiti for a particular area. Note that higher or lower yields can be encountered Lilla Creek Lyndavale Finke Nguiu Maningrida depending on local conditions. TIMOR

PARK New Crown DARWIN Nhulunbuy SEA The higher yields (more than 5.0 Litres/second) occur in fractured and Umbeara Jabiru karstic aquifers.

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LG Kulgera U Adelaide River Most fractured rock aquifers give intermediate yields (0.5 - 5.0 M ROAD Mulga Park Litres/second), while low yielding aquifers include granite and shale. MULGA Mt. Cavenagh PARK Bulman Victory Downs D O U G L A S Pine Creek D A L Y Alyangula R E G I O N 26^S 26^S Wadeye SOUTH AUSTRALIA Numbulwar GULF 5.0 - 50.0 Litres/second Katherine OF Mataranka Ngukurr 129Ê 130Ê 131Ê 132Ê 133Ê 134Ê 135Ê 136Ê 137Ê 138Ê CARPENTARIA 5.0 - 10.0 Litres/second Timber Creek 0.5 - 5.0 Litres/second 2500 65 LEGEND Borroloola Daly Waters V I C T O R I A 5 Year Moving KATHERINE kilometres 50 0 50 100 150 200 kilometres DARWIN Main Population Centre State / Territory border 0.5 - 2.5 Litres/second Average Rainfall 60 R I V E R 2000 D I S T R I C T Lamberts Conformal Conic Projection Barunga Major Population Centre Road - National Highway 0.05 - 0.5 Litres/second Katherine Annual Groundwater Level 55 Rainfall No Record Bore RN 7595 Standard Parallels, (1st) 12^40" South and (2nd) 23^20’ South Central Meridian 133^ 30’ East Kalkarindji Jilkminggan Elliott 1500 Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) Minor Population Centre Road - State Arterial 50 Ti-Tree Locality Road - Secondary Lajamanu 45 1000 This map was produced B A R K L Y on the Geocentric Datum Florina T A B L E L A N D Produced by the Pastoral property Railway 40 of Australia 1994 (GDA 94) Department of Land Resource Management (DLRM)

500 GROUNDWATER LEVEL Property boundary Gas pipeline (metres above sea level) ANNUAL RAINFALL (mm) Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia. 35 Tennant Creek GOVE July 2013 Water Control District Gas Field, Oil & Gas Field Tanami 0 30 Water Control District and 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 Mine - Open Pit, Underground Hydrogeology: S J Tickell, July 2013 Water allocation Plan Water Resources Division, DLRM T A N A M I Ali Curung Alpurrurulam 2500 565 TI-TREE Water Allocation Plan RN 5507 Observation Bore / Number NORTHERN BARROW CREEK TI-TREE Cartography: L J Fritz, Spatial Data & Mapping, D E S E R T TERRITORY National Park, Reserve or 560 Water Resources Division, DLRM OWEN SPRINGS RESERVE Watercourse, Major Spring 2000 managed for conservation AUSTRALIA Yuendumu Groundwater Level Bore RN 5507 555 For further Information and map availability, contact: No Record WESTERN QUEENSLAND 1500 550 AUSTRALIA SOUTH Water Resources Division Department of Land Resource Management (DLRM) Papunya Source: Barrow Creek Rainfall AUSTRALIA 545 4th floor Goyder Centre, 25 Chung Wah Terrace, Palmerston. 1000 5 Year Moving Average Rainfall NEW SOUTH Alice Springs Hydstra Database. WALES T: (08) 8999 4455 Email: [email protected] C Northern Territory of Australia Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management. 540 P.O. Box 496, Palmerston, 0831. Northern Territory, Australia. Areyonga VICTORIA This publication is protected by copyright law and remains the property of the Northern Territory of Australia.

500 GROUNDWATER LEVEL Internet: www.lrm.nt.gov.au/nrmapsnt (metres above sea level) ANNUAL RAINFALL (mm) 1 : 2 500 000 scale digital geology, Geological Survey, 535 Apart from any uses as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 for study research or training purposes, Map Reference: Groundwater of the Northern Territory Kaltukatjara S I M P S O N Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy. reproduction by whatever means is prohibited, without prior written permission from the custodian. The Northern D E S E R T 0 530 TASMANIA Yulara Territory accepts no liability for the accuracy of the information provided. Finke 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 The recommended reference for this map is: Great Artesian Basin km 0250 500 km Tickell SJ, 2013. Groundwater of the Northern Territory, 1:2 000 000 scale. Kulgera Note: The observation bores RN 7595 (west of Katherine) and RN 5507 (near Ti-Tree) are marked on the main map Furthermore the Northern Territory of Australia does not warrant that this product contains the latest information Department of Land Resource Management, Northern Territory. Warning: Colours will fade with prolonged exposure to light available nor that the information is free from errors.