title: Assessing the hydrological impacts of coal resource development: a case study from Australia
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metadata.value: Post, David A.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-06-01T15:00:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-06-01T15:00:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Post, D. A. (2021). Assessing the hydrological impacts of coal resource development: a case study from Australia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences, 66 (1), 91–106.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2021.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/29084
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The objective of this study is to predict regional-scale cumulative impacts on water resources
  caused by coal resource developments in the Gloucester subregion of New South Wales
  (NSW), Australia. A key outcome of the assessment is identifying areas where water resources
  are very unlikely to be impacted (with a less than 5 % chance) from those where water resources
  are potentially impacted (at least a 5 % chance). Governments, industry and the community
  can then focus on areas that are potentially impacted when making regulatory, water management
  and planning decisions. Potential impacts were ruled out using a zone of potential
  hydrological change. This zone was defined based on at least a 5 % chance of exceeding defined
  thresholds in multiple hydrological response variables including groundwater drawdown and
  eight streamflow metrics (only reductions in annual streamflow are reported here). The zone
  of potential hydrological change in the Gloucester subregion covers 250 km2 and includes
  242 km of stream network. This represents 52 % of the area and 70 % of the stream length assessed.
  Groundwater drawdown exceeding 0.2 m in the near surface aquifer due to additional
  coal resource development is very likely (> 95 % chance) for an area of 20 km2 but is very unlikely
  (< 5 % chance) to exceed an area of 100 km2. Although 242 km of streams are identified
  as being potentially impacted, changes in streamflow are small, with a little over 5 % reduction
  in annual flow in some streams close to the coal mines, and reductions in annual flow in the
  major rivers not exceeding 1–5 %.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 66; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coal resource development
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: groundwater
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: surface water
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Australia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Assessing the hydrological impacts of coal resource development: a case study from Australia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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