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The Pirie–Torrens corridor is an approximately 59 km (37 mi) long intermittent watercourse that serves as the only natural outlet of Lake Torrens, a large normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia.

Pirie–Torrens corridor
Location
CountryAustralia
StateSouth Australia
RegionFar North
Physical characteristics
SourceLake Torrens
  coordinates31°56′27.7″S 137°46′15.5″E
  elevation30 m (98 ft)
MouthSpencer Gulf
  location
Emeroo
  coordinates
32°24′15.6″S 137°45′16.2″E
  elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Length59 km (37 mi)
Discharge 
  locationPort Augusta[1]
  average0.5 m3/s (18 cu ft/s)[1]
Basin features
Tributaries 
  rightSandy Creek

Only on two recorded occasions — in 1836, and again in March 1989 — has Lake Torrens filled high enough to flow out through the corridor to its outlet at the head of the Spencer Gulf.[2][3]

The Wikipedia Lake Torrens entry states that the corridor likekly flowed in 1897.[4]


References


  1. Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2009 (2009), "Appendix O - Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Sampling in Spencer Gulf: Calibration Report" (PDF), Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2009, BMT WBM Pty Ltd., retrieved 9 June 2019 {{citation}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  2. Bye, John; Stanger, Gordon; Noonan, John (2015). "The major flooding of Lake Torrens in March 1989 (abstract)". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 139 (2): 171–188. doi:10.1080/03721426.2015.1065467.
  3. Williams, W.D.; De Deckker, P.; Shiel, R.J. (1998). "The liminology of Lake Torrens, an episodic salt lake of central Australia with particular reference to unique events in 1989" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 384: 101. doi:10.1023/A:1003207613473. Retrieved 9 June 2019 via Australian National University.
  4. John K. Warren (12 June 2006). Evaporites:Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons: Sediments, Resources, and Hydrocarbons. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 201. ISBN 9783540323440.





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