Environmental Destruction at Rum Jungle, NT :

Intermediate Overburden Dump


Intermediate Overburden Dump Before Rehabilitation, January 1985 (1).


Intermediate Overburden Dump After Rehabilitation, May 1986 (1).
Considerable reshaping, capping, new drainage lines and vegetation
have stabilised the heap.


Intermediate Dump; view to the west showing a dense pasture sward
dominated by Brachiaria decumbens (Signal grass), May 1988 (2).


Compiled by the SEA-US WebMaster.
Many thanks to Maria Kraatz, Dept. of Lands, Planning Environment, NT for supplying monitoring reports on Rum Jungle.
Page last updated - May 2, 1999.

1 - C G Allen & T J Verhoeven, 1986, The Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project - Final Project Report. Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy, Darwin, June 1986.
2 - M Kraatz & R J Applegate (Ed's), 1992, Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project Monitoring Report, 1986-1988. Technical Memorandum No. 51, Land Conservation Unit, Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.

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