The Elimatta Coal project was a proposed open-cut coal mine located approximately 40 km south-west of Taroom, in Queensland. The project occurs within the Surat Basin and targets the Walloon Coal Measures. We were engaged to complete a groundwater impact assessment to form part of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
The groundwater impact assessment involved the development of a groundwater monitoring plan and review of historic data in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the hydrogeological regime for development of the conceptual groundwater model. Based on this work, a numerical groundwater model was developed to simulate natural groundwater processes and replicate system stresses, in order to predict potential changes due to the project.
Client
AARC on behalf of on behalf of Northern Energy Corporation
Project
Elimatta Coal project: groundwater impact assessment
Sector
Mining
Services
Field services, conceptual groundwater modelling, numerical groundwater modelling
Outcomes we delivered
The outcomes included:
- quantification of groundwater take from the Great Artesian Basin water resource plan, for licensing purposes
- predicted changes in water levels in the various aquifers
- assessment of impacts on key receptors, including private landholder bores.
We were subsequently engaged to update the groundwater impact assessment to include cumulative impacts from emergent coal seam gas operations.
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