Australian Environmental Water Monitoring Locations

MDMS sample points document monitoring locations for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's Flow-MER program and preceding LTIM project. The dataset includes Selected Area monitoring sites and Basin stream-flow gauging nodes used in hydrology models. It was published by the Flow-MER program and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, with data covering projects from 2014 to 2023.

Use Cases

• Map Selected Area monitoring locations for field study planning using geospatial coordinates.
• Identify Basin stream-flow gauging sites to validate hydrology model outputs.
• Analyze the distribution of monitoring points across the Murray-Darling Basin for coverage assessment.
• Join monitoring location data with time-series water quality or flow data from the MDMS using location IDs.

Strengths

• Data spans two major multi-year monitoring programs: LTIM (2014-2019) and Flow-MER (2019-2023).
• Includes multiple location types: Selected Area monitoring sites and model node gauging stations.
• Available in several geospatial formats including GEOJSON and SHP for interoperability.

Limitations

• Specific row count and sample density per location type are unknown.
• The dataset describes monitoring points but does not contain the actual time-series measurement data.
• Geographic coverage is limited to the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia.

Provenance

Source

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Collection Method

Configured locations within the Monitoring Data Management System (MDMS) for the LTIM and Flow-MER programs.

Time Range

Project coverage from 2014 to 2023.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.