ACT Urban Lakes and Ponds with Ownership and Surface Area

A polygon dataset shows locations of Urban Bio Retention Basins, Lakes, Ponds, and Wetlands in the Australian Capital Territory. Assets are owned or managed by City Services and Parks and Conservation Service, with attributes including location description, suburb, ownership, and surface area. Data is captured through the works as executed handover process or field audits.

Use Cases

• Map urban water feature distribution based on asset subtype classification
• Analyze public asset ownership and maintenance responsibilities based on ownership and 'maintained by' fields
• Calculate water body surface areas for environmental impact studies based on surface area attribute
• Identify potential flood mitigation infrastructure based on retarding basin and bio retention basin types

Strengths

• Includes ownership and management attribution for public assets
• Categorizes assets by specific subtypes like Bio Retention Basin, Urban Lake, and Wetland
• Contains surface area measurements for each feature

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, excluding privately or federally managed assets

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi)

Collection Method

Captured and maintained in the asset database through the works as executed handover process or field audits.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 02:57:14.232947; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australian Capital Territory