Kununurra
The Department of Water is working with the community, business and government agencies to protect Kununurra's current and future drinking water. At present, the town's drinking water is supplied from groundwater from the area known as Location 715 between the M1 Channel and Lily Creek Lagoon down to the Lake Kununurra foreshore. The site is managed as a Priority 1 (P1) water protection area.
Eight exploration drilling holes and four groundwater exploration bores were constructed in the Priority 1 area during the Kununurra Water Resource Exploration Drilling Program last year. The results confirmed that water from Lake Kununurra was drawn through gravel beds to the borefield that supplied the town's drinking water, across the whole of the reserve. Based on these results, the Department of Water cannot release any of the currently gazetted land. The current site is the most cost efficient, suitable drinking water supply available for Kununurra. Until another appropriate alternative source of water has been identified, investigated, protected and is operational, the boundary around Kununurra's current Priority 1 reserve will remain.
The tables and diagrams in the document Kununurra Water Resource Exploration Drilling Program Results below show the chemical and geological data obtained from the exploration program. Please consult the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines to place the chemical results in context.
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