Port Phillip Bay Water Quality Data from EPA Victoria, 1984-2025

1984 to 2025 water quality data collected monthly by EPA Victoria from fixed sites in Port Phillip Bay. The dataset contains water sample measurements for nutrients and physical parameters. It is provided by EPA Water Sciences under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term nutrient concentration trends based on monthly water sample data.
• Model water quality parameters based on physical measurements from fixed monitoring sites.
• Assess environmental health of Port Phillip Bay based on multi-decadal monitoring data.

Strengths

• Data spans over 40 years, from 1984 to 2025.
• Collected monthly at known fixed locations, suggesting a structured time series.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

EPA Water Sciences

Collection Method

Water samples collected monthly from the EPA Victoria Marine Fixed Site Network.

Time Range

1984 - 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-29 17:09:12.266098; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia