Regional water resources assessments - Groundwater Management Area Adelaide

Regional Water Resource Assessment – GMU

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Adelaide

Adelaide Groundwater Management Unit is within South Australia and is 149 km2

This page provides high level performance indicators of water management for the Adelaide groundwater management unit (GMU) based on information provided by the government of SA.
It provides answers to a range of questions of relevance to the National Water Initiative (NWI), specifically in relation to:

Groundwater management framework
Water resource caps
Surface water / groundwater interaction
Sustainable groundwater yield
Environmental allowances / provisions
Groundwater diversions
Groundwater entitlements

Please note that a dash means that either the data was not available, not provided or that the question was not relevant for a particular area.

Groundwater management unit	Adelaide
Project ID	SA_GW_58
Size of groundwater management unit	149 km²
State	SA

Groundwater management framework

What is the status of the water management plan for this groundwater management unit?	Other
	Other
If a final or draft plan has been written, what year was it completed?	-
If a final or draft plan has been written, does it explicitly consider surface water?	-
If yes, how?	-
Does your water plan specify water quality objectives to meet environmental and other public benefit outcomes?	-
Other items included in the management framework are:
Metering program for this area	-
Effluent recycling	-
Climate change	-
Aquifer storage and recovery	-
Efficient irrigation systems	-
Other	-
Management plan available at:

Water resource caps

Has a cap been placed on groundwater usage / abstraction in this groundwater management unit?	Yes
Is the cap an absolute limit to allocation or provisional limit?	Provisional
If there is a cap, what year was it implemented?	2004
If there is a cap, is it considered to represent the sustainable groundwater yield?	-
The following water usage types are included/not included under the cap:
Irrigation	Included
Urban supply	Included
Commercial / Industrial	Included
Stock and domestic	Not included
Mining / Oil and gas	Included
Forestry	Not included
Drought supply	Not included
Greywater use	Not included
Effluent recycling	Not included
Aquifer storage and recovery	Not included
Other	-

Surface water / groundwater interaction

Are groundwater and surface water managed as an integrated water resource in this groundwater management unit?	No
Reason or method:	The connectivity is unknown

Sustainable groundwater yield

The sustainable yield within this groundwater management unit for 2004/05 was:	- ML
The method used to determine the sustainable yield was:	-
Was the sustainable yield determined for the combined (i.e. surface water and groundwater) water resources?	-
Is the cap considered to be at or below the sustainable yield of surface water?	-
If the cap is above the sustainable yield, are there management actions to bring the cap down to sustainable yield?	-
How has the aquifer responded?	-
Does this aquifer trend require a management response?	-
What is the level of development relative to the sustainable yield?	Low level of development

Environmental allowances / provisions

Have groundwater dependent ecosystems been identified for this groundwater management unit?	No
If yes, in what year were they identified?	-
If yes, what type (s) of groundwater dependent ecosystems have been identified?
Terrestrial vegetation	-
River base flow systems	-
Aquifer and cave ecosystems	-
Wetlands	-
Terrestrial fauna	-
Estuarine and near shore marine ecosystems	-
Other	-
Have environmental water requirements for the identified groundwater dependent ecosystems been determined?	-
Have environmental water provisions for the identified groundwater dependent ecosystems been formally adopted / approved?	-
Do the environmental water provisions take into account surface water?	-
If yes, how?	-
Completed environmental water requirement/provision reports available at:

Groundwater diversions

The total groundwater extraction in the groundwater management unit for 2004/05 was:	Less than 500 ML
What percentage of groundwater extraction is determined from metered data?	-
What is the level of diversions relative to the sustainable yield?	-
For surface water diversion that is NOT metered, how was the surface water diversion determined for 2004/05?
Estimated from irrigated areas	-
Estimated from licence volume	-
Estimated from power usage for pumps	-
Estimated from models	-
Other	-

Groundwater entitlements

Entitlements for groundwater are required/not required for the following usage types:
Irrigation	-
Urban supply	-
Commercial / Industrial	-
Farm dams	-
Stock and domestic	-
Mining / Oil and gas	-
Forestry	-
Floodplain harvesting	-
Drought supply	-
Greywater use	-
Effluent recycling	-
Aquifer storage and recovery	-
Other	-

National Water Commission

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Outcomes from the water cycle report

Summary of data availability and reliability

Table ? Results of the National Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) for (author type in Region name and type)