How the State Government Permitted a Water Management Disaster To Defraud A Rural Community and the Environment: Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

2 GEOLOGY

3 HISTORY OF MONITORING

4 MAJOR CONFLICTS

4.1 The Early Dudgeon Report and Aquifer Definition

4.2 The Relative Effects of Drought on Groundwater Depletion

4.3 The Bracewell-East End Connection

4.4 Surface Flows in Machine Creek

4.5 Mining Effects on Other Aquifers

4.6 Evapouration from the Open Pit

4.7 Other Violations of Lease Conditions

5 THE DEPARTMENTAL DRAFT FINAL REPORT(S)

REFERENCES

MAPS

Map 1 Monitoring area showing catchment boundaries & general geology

Map 2 Monitoring area with geology and selected monitoring stations

Map 3 Groundwater Changes May 1979 – Feb. 1980

Map 4 Lower Bracewell Aquifer, Groundwater Contours 1978 and 1988

Map 5 Unrepresentative Aquifer Units used in the DFR, Version 3

FIGURES

1 Hydrographs, observation bores: #02, #03 (East End aquifer); #04, #05

(Bracewell aquifer); W28, W43 (Bracewell calibration wells in alluvium)

2 East End aquifer, Hut Ck to Mine: Water table depletion 1977-1997

3 DNR Position Paper (1988): Section from upper Bracewell to the mine

4 Section: Groundwater contours lower Bracewell, 1977 to 2007

5 Rate of groundwater lowering against water table elevation (Lucke property)

6 BH 07/1C, log