Tag: Mount Compass

  • Water security in the Mount Compass area

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    Communities and businesses in Mount Compass rely on the Permian sand aquifers for safe drinking, industrial and irrigation water supplies. In 2025, the Department of the Environment and Water provided a factsheet on the water security, which demonstrated that the sand distribution is spread unevenly across the region with significant variation in the depth of…

  • Geology of Mount Compass

    Geology of Mount Compass

    Mount Compass has an ancient geology spanning back in time some 2500 million years, including a complete glaciation in the Permian period yielding much of its present topography.

  • Sandmines within the Mount Compass area

    Sandmines within the Mount Compass area

    The Mount Compass area resides in a geological region defined as the Cape Jervis Formation. The South Australian Resources Information Gateway (SARIG) provides digital access to the South Australian geological information through the use of mapping tools and an online catalogue of reports.

  • Geology of the Fleurieu Peninsula

    Geology of the Fleurieu Peninsula

    The geology of the Fleurieu is a complex composition of very ancient rock formations amidst that formed in the earliest geological times. Thanks to the Digital Atlas of Australia, this geology is illustrated graphically.

  • Bushfire information for the Fleurieu

    Bushfire information for the Fleurieu

    SAPPA provides information which affects property development and planning. This includes alerting potential home buyers of the bushfire risk in areas of South Australia.