Photo of the unpolluted South Branch of the Finniss River.
Notice the dense fringing growths of Pandanus palms
with some paperbarks along the shores. (4).
Photo of the HEAVILY POLLUTED East Branch of the Finniss River.
Notice the stumps of dead Pandanus palms and the eroded and grassless bank. (4).
Part of the HEAVILY POLLUTED Finniss River
immediately downstream of the junction with the East Branch during the 1973 Wet Season Fish Kill (4).
Acid Dam After Rehabilitation (1).
Borrow pit near Mt Fitch gate, May 1988 (2).
Recontoured December 1985. Unassisted revegetation.
East Branch of the Finniss River in February 1993 looking downstream
from the entrance to the Rum Jungle site. (3).
Monitoring station (GS8150200) can be seen to the left.
Looking south-southwest from the old treatment plant area towards White's North
and White's Overburden Heaps (2).
Many thanks to Maria Kraatz, Dept. of Lands, Planning Environment, NT for supplying monitoring reports on Rum Jungle.
Page last updated - September 8, 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.
3 - M Kraatz (Ed.), 1998, Monitoring Report 1988-1993 Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project. Technical Report No. R97/2, Lands, Planning and Environment Dept., Darwin, NT.
4 - R Jeffree & N J Williams, 1975, Biological Indications of Pollution of the Finniss River System - Especially Fish Diversity and Abundance. In "Rum Jungle Environmental Studies", AAEC/E365, Chapter 7.
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