Drinking the Undrinkable     Richard Clark     Sep 2, 2024

Quorn appears to be stuck with a poor quality water supply, possibly for the next 4-5 years, because the present government cannot afford a (media quoted) $50 million desalination plant to fix the problem, as proposed by SA Water.   Investigations by the Author have revealed a sequence of options, the first of which could be initiated immediately at very low cost under an ongoing program of further data gathering, investigation and improvements. The options introduced sequentially over the next years would still involve desalination, but a much smaller plant, and could provide a far wider array of associated benefits at a significantly lower cost than would be provided by the present SA Water proposal alone.

Flooding at Quorn?     Richard Clark     Sep 2, 2024

As a frequent visitor to Quorn over the past 50 years, as a retired senior citizen with a background in hydrology and water systems and having researched and made an extensive “expression of Interest” to Quorn’s “Unthinkable Undrinkable” plea for help with its water quality problem, I find myself troubled by what I see and fear is a higher than desirable flooding risk to the Quorn township.

Pumped Hydro needs water     Richard Clark     Dec 10, 2024

The identification of many pumped hydro sites in South Australia is meaningless unless a reliable source of water can be identified. Storage with large surface areas are unlikely to be maintained in winter let alone in the dry summer period. Here I discuss the true potential of pumped hydro generation in South Australia