Groundwater Management Basins of Victoria

Five Groundwater Management Basins provide administrative boundaries for Victoria's groundwater resources, derived from underlying Groundwater Catchments. The dataset, produced by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action under the SAFE Project, aligns with aquifer systems and surface water divides.

Use Cases

• Map administrative boundaries for groundwater policy and regulation across the five defined basins.
• Analyze the alignment of Groundwater Management Basins with physical features like surface water flow divides and geological structures.
• Integrate basin boundaries with Groundwater Catchment data for hydrogeological modeling in Victoria.

Strengths

• Defines five distinct administrative basins for groundwater management in Victoria.
• Boundaries are derived from physical characteristics including aquifer systems and groundwater flow divides.
• Provides complete spatial coverage of the state of Victoria.

Limitations

• Contains no tabular attribute data; consists solely of geographic boundary files.
• The specific number of constituent Groundwater Catchments within each basin is not quantified in the provided description.
• Update history and temporal coverage of the boundary definitions are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria)

Collection Method

Derived from Groundwater Catchments as part of the NWC-funded Secure Allocations, Future Entitlement (SAFE) Project.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 09.

Geography

Victoria, Australia