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d Cape slan y I Cape W E Croker xle Wessel O GROUNDWATER Island son P aw y o CROKER L 11^S a r 11^S B t E ISLAND McCluer Island e Vashon Head s Cape y g Point s i a d n Van Diemen i Jahleel Minjilang B r g Grant Island t k y b o S r a h n t a B Radford Dundas Strait e h e Point L St A S k saph a Cape PROSPECTS B ay n COBURG PENINSULA Cape Cockburn S Don Marchinbar Island Deception Point Pirlangimpi Victoria Settlement Milikapiti GARIG GUNAK BARLU NATIONAL PARK North Goulburn Is. Rocky Point Brogden Point Na pie North West BATHURST r Bay South Goulburn Is. Stevens Island WESSEL ISLANDS Gord Crocodile Island Guluwuru Island on Cape Keith Warruwi B C Aurary Cuthbert ay MELVILLE ISLAND o Bay Point Drysdale Island Cape Helvetlus b Truant Island h Wigram ISLAND a Brathwaite Point Nguiu m rown Strait Island B B d ay oa GROUNDWATER PROSPECTS ion Bay R Junct ay Cape Fourcroy Elcho Island al Cape M t ai Boucaut Bay Stewart

Str Mooroongga Pt Napier HOWARD EAST M e A Island Moderate to high yields, moderate regular recharge, local water quality c d Galiwinku en Maningrida y e 12^S ar a a 12^S Cl B l Bremer Status Draft m Goomadeer am v Vernon Milingimbi h i limitations in coastal areas g l Island B y n l Islands a i e a k Recharge (ML/y) 204,000 Point B Castlereagh Howard c y u B e B NHULUNBUY Gunn Point Stuart k Bay Island a y BEAGLEConsumptive GULF pool (ML/y) 40,800 Chambers Bay in Moderate to high yields, low intermittent recharge, local water quality S F hoal Nabarlek Yirrkala Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 20,500 Ba MARY Yariwoi limitations y Woolner Arnhem RIVER Gunbalanya Ramingining District GOVE lywoi Bay Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 12,898 Charles Point KAKADU NATIONAL PARK Bay Da NATIONAL Cape Arnhem Licences 8 DARWIN PARK Low to moderate yields, moderate to low regular recharge, local water quality Old Arafura Gapuwiyak Total Current use (ML/y) 33,398 DARWIN limitations in coastal areas Belyuen JaJa ROAD P RURAL Jabiru o Low to moderate yields, low intermittent recharge, local water quality rt Dum In Mirrie Island B AY r ARNHEM ad limitations HIGHW sh BERRY SPRINGS aw Status Draft Fog Bay ARNHEM Low yields, low intermittent recharge, water quality limitations C Recharge (ML/y) 39,500 Koongarra CENTRAL ale Point Blaze ndo TIMORConsumptive pool (ML/y) 7,900 n Bay Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 3,300 toCh 6,300 Cape Grey 13^S an T 13^S ne Mount ri l P Ringwood MARY al Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 2,100 o Bay in RIVER t Licences 4 NATIONAL HIGHWAY Peron Island North Welltree PARK Total Current use (ML/y) 6,900 SEA Peron Island South LITCHFIELD Ban Ban KAKADU NATIONAL PARK NATIONAL WATER ALLOCATION PLANNING Anson Springs Cape Shield Bay PARK Brocks Cape Ford Litchfield Creek Isle Woodah Grove Hill Mary River Litchfield OS KAKADU Blue Nicol Island Declared Water Allocation Planning Area Cape Scott Burrundie Mud ROAD Hawknest Elizabeth North East Downs Bay Island Douglas Isles Union Bickerton Town Esmeralda Bulman Tipperary Island Draft Water Allocation Planning Area Dooley Point Nauiyu Milyakburra Cape Pine Creek Alyangula Dombey Water Statistics Definitions ARNHEM Milner Bay Umbakumba Hy P la nd Lewin Status Water allocation plan either declared or draft o B Springs Mainoru r a Angurugu t y Jindare Mountain 14^S K Valley 14^S Recharge (ML/y) The average amount of water added each year to an aquifer by natural process e Fergusson NITMILUK Cape Hay a ay t River Conways GROOTE bu B s (KATHERINE GORGE) um Peppimenarti Wongalara Dal GULF Consumptive pool (ML/y) The total amount of water available for consumptive use NATIONAL PARK EYLANDT CENTRAL Wadeye FISH RIVER Numbulwar Stock & domestic use (ML/y) Water used for stock and domestic purposes (unlicensed) GORGE BLOCK Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) Maximum licensed extraction Claravale Maud Creek Cape Beatrice Big Licences The number of groundwater extraction licences issued Nganmarriyanga OF Pearce Point KATHERINE River Sandy Island Florina Barunga DALY ROPER Total Current use (ML/y) The actual amount of water used 0OOLLOO Dorisvale Maranboy Beswick Goondooloo Flying JOSEPH Status Draft Fox STUA Edward Island Recharge (ML/y) 300,000 Y RT CARPENTARIA BONAPARTE GIWINING / FLORA RIVER Lonesome Dove NATURE PARK Ngukurr Consumptive pool (ML/y) 60,000 HIGHWA GULF Moroak Limmen LIMMEN BIGHT Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 1,384 MARINE PARK GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE Wombungi O/S Scott Creek Mount McMinn Bight Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 24,636 Namul Namul Maria Island Manbulloo Licences 16 LIMMEN DISCHARGE Total Current use (ML/y) 3,021 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 TINDALL MATARANKA 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 StatusMinyerri Draft Legune Nenen Downs TIMOR the north, so discharge is correspondingly greater. DARWIN Nhulunbuy TINDALL KATHERINE Willeroo Recharge (ML/y) 180,000 SEA Bradshaw Innesvale Many streams in the north maintain a flow for at least part of the long dry Consumptive pool (ML/y) 36,000 Jabiru Status Declared 2009 Wyworrie A R N H E M L A N D season because of groundwater discharge. Some streams, particularly Recharge (ML/y) 74,000 Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 540 those with major karstic or porous rock aquifers in their catchments, flow JUDBARRA / Margaret Vermelha SIR EDWARD PELLEW GROUP Downs Larrizona Cow GREGORY BUN Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 10,287 LIMMEN throughout the dry season. Springs with significant discharges (more than Bullo River Consumptive pool (ML/y) 34,171 Creek North Coolibah NATIONAL Gorrie BARRANYI (North Island) 100 L/s) only occur in karstic aquifers. KEEP RIVER TINE West Island Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 1,568 Licences 15 NATIONAL NATIONAL PARK NATIONAL PARK Fitzroy PARK Island D O U G L A S Extension (Proposed) Delamere Total Current use (ML/y) 10,827 D A L Y Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 35,400 R E G I O N Another mechanism for groundwater discharge is where trees in the HIGHWAY Timber Creek PARK Auvergne South Centre I. riparian zone directly tap the watertable. This occurs throughout the Licences 70 West I. GULF Katherine Territory, but in the arid south it is thought to be the dominant process Total Current use (ML/y) 9,780 Banjo Western Middle Birdum Nutwood Downs Vanderlin OF KEEP RIVER Creek Creek Creek along with discharge through salt lakes. Maryfield Port Island NATIONAL PARK CARPENTARIA cArthur Dillinya Tarlee M Gilnockie Cox River This map shows recorded springs and streams that flow throughout the Providence dry season. The streams have been classified according to their flows at VICTORIA Manangoora Borroloola the end of the dry season. The classification only extends to the tidal limit, 16^S HIGHWAY 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 Warby O/S the coast. Kalala NATIONAL R I V E R D I S T R I C T Bauhinia PARK Greenbank Downs Killarney CARPENTARIA CARANBIRINI SPRINGS Moolooloo O/S Highway Inn Seven Emu CONSERVATION RESERVE Springs Birrimba Broadmere Victoria River Downs Tanumbirini Rosewood Amanbidji Major Springs JUDBARRA / GREGORY Yarralin Hidden Valley Amungee Mungee Humbert River B A R K L Y Spring Salt Lake NATIONAL BULLWADDY Creek T A B L E L A N D CONSERVATION O T Downs McArthur River RESERVE Waterloo PARK Dungowan Buchanan Downs Montejinni Shenandoah HIGHWAY Pungalina END OF DRY SEASON FLOWS Balbirini Tennant Creek Robinson Greater than 100 Litres/second River 10 to 100 Litres/second

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

Daguragu Wave Hill Kalkarindji

Alice Springs Cattle Creek Ucharonidge LONGREACH WATERHOLE Tandyidgee Source: PROTECTED AREA Hydstra Database and existing hydrogeological maps. Kirkimbie IGHWAY H Mungabroom Wallhallow S I M P S O N Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management.

Inverway Yulara D E S E R T JUNCTION Riveren Benmara Great Artesian Basin km 0250 500 km RESERVE Cresswell Downs Anthony

UNTINE HIGHWAY Lagoon B Bunda Eva Downs 18^S 18^S Powell Creek

TABLELANDS PALAEOVALLEYS Wallamunga Lajamanu Helen Springs Birrindudu A relict drainage system that formed in the Tertiary era between 2 and 65 ARAFURA SEA million years ago is preserved in the south western part of the Territory. It Milikapiti comprises small sedimentary basins and narrow palaeovalleys. Brunette Downs Muckaty Nguiu Maningrida TIMOR Aquifers are developed in river sands and gravels that form part of the CONNELLS DARWIN Nhulunbuy LAGOON SEA channel and basin fills. Shallow calcrete layers can host fractured and Banka Banka Mittiebah Mount Drummond CONSERVATION Jabiru karstic aquifers. 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 D A L Y Alyangula R E G I O N 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 Katherine Phillip Creek OF drilling in those areas. Mataranka Ngukurr Suplejack Downs BARKLY Alroy Downs CARPENTARIA Timber Warrego Creek Orlando HIGHWAY Palaeovalleys and Sedimentary Basins

Adder Borroloola Daly Waters V I C T O R I A

Rocklands R I V E R TENNANT CREEK East Tennant Creek Ranken D I S T R I C T West Ranken Dalmore Downs Kalkarindji 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 Avon Downs

Tennant Creek

McLaren Creek Tanami

Epenarra Wutunugurra Granite / Tanami Kurundi T A N A M I Ali Curung Alpurrurulam Operations KARLU KARLU / DEVILS MARBLES Austral CONSERVATION RESERVE Downs Kurinelli O/S Burramurra D E S E R T Tanami Downs Canteen Creek QUEENSLAND Singleton TANAMI Yuendumu DAVENPORT RANGE WESTERN DAVENPORT NATIONAL PARK Status Declared 2011 WESTERN Recharge (ML/y) 55,000 Papunya Ali Curung Consumptive pool (ML/y) 44,150 Alpurrurulam DAVENPORT Alice Springs 21^S Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 91 21^S Source: Areyonga Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 5,862 Georgina Downs TI-TREE Neutral Paleovalley Groundwater Project, Willowra Junction Elkedra Licences Annitowa10 Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management and Status Declared 2002 ROAD Total Current use (ML/y) 569 Kaltukatjara S I M P S O N Geoscience Australia, Australian Government. Murray Downs Recharge (ML/y) 4,400 D E S E R T HIGHWAY Yulara Consumptive pool (ML/y) 13,490 Finke km 0250 500 km Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 100 Kulgera Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 5,295 Licences 12 Lake Nash Total Current use (ML/y) 1,020 Ampilatwatja Argadargada Stirling Ammaroo SALINITY and RAINFALL Anningie

Ooratippra GROUNDWATER SALINITY ARAFURA SEA 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 Nturiya TI-TREE Manners 1500 evaporite deposits. The latter are salt deposits formed at the same time Mt Denison Creek Pmara Jutunta TIMOR as the surrounding sedimentary rocks. DARWIN Nhulunbuy Woola Downs SEA 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 Delmore Downs HIGHWAY 1300 Downs NATIONAL PARK Lucy Creek 1200 It shows generally low salinities in the north. In those areas, high rainfall, Napperby Laramba Delny higher recharge rates and a faster through-flow of groundwater leads to 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 CARPENTARIA variable and range up to values almost twice the concentration of Marqua Alcoota 800 seawater (34,000 mg/L TDS). Low salinities observed in the arid zone ROAD Bushy Huckitta reflect localised areas of enhanced recharge such as along rivers and Park HIGHWAY Jinka floodouts. Borroloola ALICE SPRINGS ALUVIAL AQUIFERS PLENTY Atitjere A prominent area of saline groundwaters to the north east of Tennant Creek 23^S Status Declared 2007 23^S 700 Mt Riddock reflects extensive evaporites within the Georgina Basin. Both gypsum (calcium Recharge (ML/y) 2,470 Yambah sulphate) and halite (sodium chloride) occur in the rocks of that area. Derwent Consumptive pool (ML/y) 1,472 600 Papunya Ambalindum Stock & domesticNarwietooma use (ML/y) 132 Kintore Amburla The Garden Mount Liebig Indiana Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 1,400 Ambalindum Claraville TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS (TDS) Glen ALICE SPRINGS AMADEUS BASIN AQUIFERS LicencesHelen 12 ARLTUNGA HISTORICAL RESERVE 0 - 500 mg/L Fresh Haasts Bluff TREPHINA GORGE Hamilton Downs NATURE PARK Status Declared 2007 Total Current use (ML/y) 883 RUBY GAP 500 Stock Bond Atnarpa Springs Recharge (ML/y) NATURE PARK1,100 TO 3,100 500 - 1000 mg/L Fresh Irrigation WEST MACDONNELL Domestic NATIONAL PARK RossConsumptive River pool (ML/y) 14,616 ALICE SPRINGS Stock & domestic use (ML/y) Tennant Creek 1000 - 3000 mg/L Brackish Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 15,500 Amoonguna 400 Ringwood Human Consumption Licences 5 3000 - 7000 mg/L Saline Todd River TNORALA Total Current use (ML/y) Limbla 9,500 (GOSSE BLUFF) Hermannsburg CONSERVATION 7000 - 14000 mg/L Saline RESERVE Numery Wallace OWEN SPRINGS HIGHWAY 24^S 24^S Areyonga Rockhole RESERVE ALICE 14000 - 59000 mg/L Saline, unsuitable for most purposes FINKE Santa Teresa GORGE SPRINGS NATIONAL 400 WATARRKA PARK RAINBOW VALLEY Annual Rainfall (mm) Allambi NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION RESERVE Deep Kings Canyon Orange Creek Well Tempe Downs Source: HENBURY CONSERVATION PROJECT Alice Springs Hydstra Database. Henbury 300 Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management.

Titjikala Median Annual Rainfall, 2003. Bureau of Meterology. Australian GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN Government. CHAMBERS PILLAR Yulara HISTORICAL RESERVE 200 Kaltukatjara Palmer Valley km 0250 500 km

Idracowra STUART GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN 25^S 25^S Imanpa Status Draft HIGHWAY Mt Ebenezer LASSETE Recharge (ML/y) 17,000 R Horseshoe YIELD Yulara Erldunda Bend Consumptive pool (ML/y) 9,700 Stock & domestic use (ML/y) 3,500 Mutitjulu Licensed Entitlement (ML/y) 96 BORE YIELD ARAFURA SEA Andado ULURU - KATA TJUTA Licences 1 The map shows the most likely range of bore yields that can be expected NATIONAL PARK Total Current use (ML/y) 3,564 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 New Crown DARWIN Nhulunbuy SEA The higher yields (more than 5.0 Litres/second) occur in fractured and Umbeara Jabiru karstic aquifers. A R N H E M L A N D

Adelaide River Most fractured rock aquifers give intermediate yields (0.5 - 5.0 Litres/second), while low yielding aquifers include granite and shale. Mt. Cavenagh 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 129^E 130^E 131^E 132^E 133^E 134^E 135^E 136^E 137^E 138^E 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 Map Reference: DLRM2013005 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.