Conference Proceedings
Water in Mining 2013
Conference Proceedings
Water in Mining 2013
Challenges and Opportunities for Constructed Stream Diversions in the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland
Constructed stream diversions are a common element of mine sites across Australia. A review of constructed stream diversion performance in the Bowen Basin funded by the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) in 1999 found over 80 per cent of constructed stream diversions failed to meet regulator and operator expectations. Since that time, improvements have been made in the assessment, design, monitoring and management of constructed stream diversions. Fundamental to these improvements has been the development of a better understanding of the regional stream systems and efforts to replicate the natural stream processes in the function and operation of constructed stream diversions.This paper discusses the history of constructed stream diversions through the Bowen Basin in central Queensland recorded in the outcomes of a series of ACARP funded research projects. Further, the paper reports on the outcomes of a current ACARP funded project that has reviewed the success or otherwise of constructed stream diversions in the region. The assessment has compared the performance of diversions that have been designed to replicate and provide for ongoing stream geomorphic processes with those diversions that were designed and built prior to the development of these design improvements. Based on these investigations we have identified design and construction successes and issues requiring further research and management attention.CITATION:White, K, Lucas, R, Hardie, R, Merritt, J and Kirsch, B, 2013. Challenges and opportunities for constructed stream diversions in the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland, in Proceedings Water in Mining 2013 , pp 73-82 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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K White, R Lucas, R Hardie, J Merritt, B Kirsch
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