Mount Lofty Ranges Priority Areas: Water Quality Risk Zones for Adelaide Water Supply

Mount Lofty Ranges Priority Areas is a geospatial dataset from the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) defining three zones within the Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed. It classifies areas based on water quality risk to the Adelaide mains water supply system. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04 28.

Use Cases

• Modeling pollution risk to drinking water sources based on defined priority zones.
• Planning land-use and conservation activities within a watershed based on water quality risk.
• Creating environmental policy maps for water supply protection based on geospatial zoning.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, KMZ) for compatibility with various tools.
• Dataset is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
• Source is the authoritative Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for the region.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Environment Protection Authority (EPA)

Collection Method

Likely derived from environmental monitoring and risk assessment models.

Time Range

Current system as of the last update date.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 02:42:36.424144; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mount Lofty Ranges Watershed, Adelaide, South Australia.