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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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