Reference list for waterrelated coal seam gas and coal mining research

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☐ Baseline information (water quality and quantity)

☐ Field based and modelling approaches for assessing connectivity

☐ Groundwater flow and solute transport dynamics

☐ Disruption of surface water flow pathways

☐ Subsidence

☐ Mine cone of depression

☐ Stream diversions

☐ Infrastructure

☐ Co-produced water and salt management (CSG) and mine water & salt management (coal mines)

☐ Aquifer injection and/or water treatment (technologies, relative cost benefit)

☐ Effect on land and water resources (including. Irrigation)

☐ Effect on Water dependent ecosystems (streams, rivers, floodplains, wetlands, GDEs, peat swamps)

☐ Seismicity

☐ Integrity of wells - installation, operation, decommissioning

☐ Hydraulic fracturing

☐ Chemical - Surface and groundwater quality

☐ Physical - Aquitard disruption, borehole collapse

☐ Quality and reliability of water supplies including environmental health

☐ Mine site and gas field remediation, including well decommissioning and post mining voids

☐ Long term impacts, including, timescales for water levels to return to pre-development levels (quality/quantity)

☐ Chemical migration and toxicity

☐ Managing salt and heavy metals

☐ Water dependent ecosystems

☐ Prediction of potential impacts to water dependent ecosystems(streams, rivers, floodplains, wetlands, GDEs, peat swamps)

☐ Response and tolerances of water dependent ecosystems to changes in water regime (surface and groundwater quantity, seasonal patterns, variability, interactions) and water quality

☐ Mitigation measures

☐ Monitoring techniques

☐ Cumulative impact assessments

☐ Other: Please list all