Aquaculture Groundwater Resource Atlas - Savory

The Savory Region includes the Nabberu, Savory and Paterson Groundwater Provinces. The region is occupied mainly by Precambrian sedimentary rocks, with igneous and metamorphic rocks north of Lake Disappointment. The central part of the region, beneath the Little Sandy Desert, is occupied by sandstone, which may have some groundwater potential.

Otherwise, the main aquifers in the region are calcrete and concealed palaeochannel sediments, of Tertiary or Permian age. Groundwater salinity ranges from fresh to saline.

Groundwater is used for pastoral purposes in the Nabberu Groundwater Province in the south, and for mining at Nifty and Telfer in the north.

The calcrete aquifers have the best potential for development of shallow, fresh to brackish, groundwater supplies.

References: Chapman (1962); Sanders and Harley(1971); WRC Hydrogeology Report HR 144 by C.Yesertener and M.K.Stevens.