2007 – Seventh Triennial Conference

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Proceedings of the Seventh Triennial Conference on Mine Subsidence – A Community Issue

University of Wollongong, NSW 26-27 Nov 2007

Title	Author	Page
Cover page – Foreword – Contents
Evaluating the Impacts of Longwall Mine Subsidence on Vineyards in the Broke Region of New South Wales: The Challenges of Analysing Multi-scale Field Data	JA Thompson PS Frazier DW Lamb	1
West Wallsend Colliery – A Coordinated Approach to Managing Subsidence Impacts on Multiple High Risk Sensitive Surface Features: LW27 Case Study	M Robinson	11
Mitigating the Effects of Mine Subsidence due to Coal Mining On Major Infrastructure Assets Critical to Sydney	M McGill	23
Investigation of Potential Longwall Mining Impact on Upper Cordeaux No.2 Dam	DKH Ho PG Dominish CW Tan	33
Subsidence Monitoring at Cataract Tunnel Portal: Lessons Learnt	G. Brassington, C. Horsley	43
Measuring Mine Subsidence – Illawarra Coal’s Diversified Approach	L Anderson D Patterson M Nicholson	53
Monitoring Mining Induced Strain in a Road Pavement using Optical Fibres	DJ Kay, B Whelan G Donald H Pinkster	69
Continuous Monitoring with Tiltmeters and the Internet	P Enright	81
Remote Monitoring of Mine Subsidence Using Radar Interferometry	L Ge, HC Chang C Rizos, KW Mills	93
Monitoring the Impact of Longwall Mine Subsidence on Surface Environments Using Remote Sensing	T Trotter, P Frazier	101
A Case Study on Multi-seam Subsidence with Specific Reference to Longwall Mining under Existing Longwall Goaf	G Li, P Steuart R Pâquet	111
Probabilistic Approach to Predicting Far Field Horizontal Movements During Mining	DJ Kay WJC Meynink HG Buys PL DeBono H Pinkster	127
Predictions of Far Field Displacements Due to Pillar Extraction or Longwall Mining in Mountainous Terrain	S Ditton	141
Mine Subsidence at Waratah Rivulet: a Case Study of the Consideration of Environmental Costs and Benefits of Underground Longwall Mining	R Gillespie	151
Risk Assessment of Applications to Mine Near Dams and Stored Waters	P Reid	165
Designing a Longwall Layout in the Face of Stringent Subsidence Constraints – the Mandalong Experience	RW Seedsman	177
Rapid Stress Assessment of Buried Pipelines in Mine Subsidence Regions	DKH Ho PG Dominish CW Tan	189
Review of Mechanisms Resulting in Observed Upsidence and Closure Movements	DR Kay, JP Barbato KW Mills	197
Subsidence Impacts on River Channels and Opportunities for Control	KW Mills	207
The Ecology of Subsidence – Upland Swamps in the Southern Coalfield	M Richardson D Ryan	219
High-Resolution Environmental Monitoring: a Determination of the Upland Swamp-Woodland Boundary from ALS (Airborne Laser Scanning) Data	RB Jenkins	233
Changes of Water Quality in a Stream Impacted by Longwall Mining Subsidence	J Jankowski	241
Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions in a Catchment Impacted by Longwall Mining	J Jankowski	253
Mine Subsidence Induced Hydraulic Connection Tested by Geochemical and Geophysical Tracing Techniques	CL Waring MA Peterson	263
Geochemical and Algal Tracing of Potential Flow from a Lake to an Underground Mine	SA Short, AN Golab CJ Tippler RV Walsh	269