With the good rains that the Great Divide has had in recent years I’d imagine that the artesian basin’s pressure would have gone up.
Will the increased pressure be readable at the bores? Is it recorded on line?

I love how this rain wont reach the bores for a few thousand years, apparently.
Topher was all over this stuff but he’s pissed off.

Potentiometric response to rainfall events is a fascinating subject, and can tell you a lot about a groundwater regime. However, the GAB is a great sluggish thing, and seeing as how very little of the rain so far has fallen on it, I doubt there would be little happening there.

There are borehole monitoring programmes, but I don’t know where the data are held.

For NSW http://www.water.nsw.gov.au/Realtime-reports/groundwater/default.aspx

You can also get a DVD of data from them.

http://watermonitoring.derm.qld.gov.au/host.htm

Thanks for the links.

Geoff D said:

Potentiometric response to rainfall events is a fascinating subject, and can tell you a lot about a groundwater regime. However, the GAB is a great sluggish thing, and seeing as how very little of the rain so far has fallen on it, I doubt there would be little happening there.

There are borehole monitoring programmes, but I don’t know where the data are held.

The problem with it all is there is no warning system that says.. stop it or you’ll go blind.

Peak Warming Man said:

I love how this rain wont reach the bores for a few thousand years, apparently.

What effect does our building McMansions in urbanised areas have on water eventually getting into the aquifers?

An article in the newspaper today piqued my interest …

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/keep-the-humble-backyard-says-urban-design-expert-20130222-2ex6k.html

From that article .. “Green space around buildings and housing is very important – it has a definite function. Backyards absorbed stormwater … “

Can we do more to get rainwater into our aquifers?

AussieDJ said:

Can we do more to get rainwater into our aquifers?

Yeah, recycled waste waster or storm water can be pumped back down there.

party_pants said:

AussieDJ said:

Can we do more to get rainwater into our aquifers?

Yeah, recycled waste water or storm water can be pumped back down there.

I was thinking that every new house should have a bore hole dug down to near the water table, and that the runoff from, say, just one downpipe should be fed down it to replenish the supply, even if it is just by a little bit.