Shallow core drilling in the Douglas/Daly area

S. J. Tickell
Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts, Natural Resources Division

This report documents the drilling results from a project as part of the “Water Quality in the Daly River” funded jointly by the National Action Plan for Salinity & Water Quality programme and the NT Government. The aim of the drilling was to provide strata samples beneath a representative set of soil types on cleared and uncleared areas.
Measurements of soil water chloride, moisture content and matric potential were made on the samples by CSIRO Land & Water and these will be reported on in the project’s final report. The vertical profiles of these parameters will be used to estimate groundwater recharge.

This report has a number of photographs that display the different soil types. There are also graphic logs of the strata and information on the surface geology and landforms.