Goyder channel

Fig. 89.1 Port Augusta to Lake Eyre Pipeline Corridor. A slightly different course might prove better if only the South Basin is to be filled at the Lake Eyre terminal south of the proposed Goyder Channel Tension Textile Dam. (Source Feieidoun Ghassemi Ian White, 2006, Fig. 7.5, p. 146)...

The macro-project assumes Lake Eyre is permanently filled with seawater. When Lake Eyre is full, and its ASL is h-5 m (16.4 ft), Lake Eyre covers an area of 19,600 km (7,509 mi ) and contains 215 km of saline liquid. It might be best to envision Lake Eyre with an artificial level of -3.5 m (11.48 ft) ASL, an area of 9,920 km (3,800 mi ) and a volume of 75 km (Eig. 89.2). Even a lower filling level such as -6 m ASL, 55 km, constitutes an ambitious macro-project aim. Such a vision offers a Lake Eyre where both the North and South basins are filled constantly and joined through the Goyder channel. The water volume and the surface area of a full Lake Eyre is denoted Fiake and Siake, respectively. Here we accept Flake = 75 km and Siake = 9,920 km. ... 

Goyder Channel, named for George Woodroffe Goyder (1826-1898), changes with each significant flooding event. In this study we accept t = 8 years as an average value of the observed data (McMahon et al 2005). 

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