EPA Victoria Western Port Water Quality Data, 1990-2025

EPA Victoria Marine Fixed Site Network water quality data collected monthly from known fixed locations in Western Port's surface waters. The dataset contains water sample data on nutrients and physical parameters, pertaining to water quality monitoring. Data was collected by EPA Water Sciences and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term nutrient concentration trends based on monthly water sample data.
• Model water quality parameters across different fixed monitoring sites in Western Port.
• Assess seasonal or interannual variability in marine physical parameters mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data spans a 35-year period from 1990 to 2025, enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Collection follows a structured protocol with monthly sampling at known fixed locations.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

EPA Water Sciences

Collection Method

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

Time Range

1990 - 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-30 07:40:23.081863; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Port, Victoria, Australia