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ASR Projects

AGT, its principals and senior staff have been closely involved in all aspects of the planning, design and construction of fully operational ASR schemes. Some examples of these fully operational ASR schemes are listed below:

  1. The Paddocks SA (commissioned 1996/97) – This project involved the construction of a 170m deep dual purpose well in a confined limestone aquifer. This included the design and implementation of a fully automated remote control system that operates the injection and production modes of the well, the well redevelopment function and the required monitoring of key physical and chemical parameters.

  1. Langhorne Creek SA (commissioned mid 1980s) – This project involved providing technical assistance to irrigators for the construction of over 20 dual injection/irrigation wells in confined limestone aquifers.

  1. Clayton SA (commissioned 1995) – This project involved the injection of ‘potable’ water, when available from lake Alexandrina, into a highly saline limestone aquifer to create a reliable town water supply. The system is controlled and monitored by radio telemetry and water quality is the major management issue.

  1. Regent Gardens SA (commissioned 1995) –This project involved construction of one 80m deep automated injection/production well in a fractured rock aquifer, using wetland water for recharge.

  1. Andrews Farm SA (commissioned 1993) – This project involved the construction of a single 200m injection/production well within a confined limestone aquifer. The monitoring and operational experience at this site was used for the development of the Australian code of practice for ASR using harvested stormwater for injection purposes.

  1. Tea Tree Gully SA (commissioned 2001) – AGT was the project manager of the successfully completed ASR scheme, where stormwater runoff captured in the golf club dam is stored in the underlying fractured rock aquifer for summer irrigation of the greens.

  1. Barker Inlet - The Torrens Catchment Water Management Board, in conjunction with the Cities of Pt Adelaide-Enfield, Charles Sturt and Prospect, which collectively manage the stormwater catchments draining into the Barker Inlet wetlands, engaged the services of AGT to undertake an assessment of the viability of harvesting stormwater from the Barker Inlet wetlands and associated ASR scheme(s) for local irrigation and industrial use and to design and develop a project proposal for implementation.

  1. Willunga Basin - Within the Willunga Basin there is broad community and Government support for effective and efficient use of all the available water resources. Additionally there is the need for sustainable water resources to support the highly successful growth of the region’s grape growing and premium wine making industry. One of the options for enhancing natural recharge to the Willunga aquifer included the storage of excess stormwater and the excess recycled water (winter) from the Christies Beach Waste Water Treatment Plant. AGT prepared an aquifer wastewater storage proposal in response to a request from the Willunga ASR Task Group, which was established in 1999 by the Minister for Government Enterprises, to recommend an outline plan for investigating the viability of ASR in the Willunga region and was subsequently appointed project manager of the scheme. Apart from the beneficial use of the recycled water, successful winter storage will further reduce the volume of treated wastewater discharged into the Gulf of St.Vincent. Significantly, the depth to the Willunga Formation aquifer is around 70 to 120 metres in this locality. This means that deep well injection was the method used to store the available water and the thickness of the sediments in this locality also provided adequate storage capacity for the volume of water anticipated. For management purposes, AGT opted for a centralised scheme, rather than a distributed one, which facilitated a reduction in risks to existing and other future users. It was also decided that injection will occur at the bottom end of the system in brackish water (nearer the coast), where sufficient attenuation would occur through the aquifer so that there would be no adverse environmental effects resulting from any discharges to the ocean.