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Description
New South Wales water theme data provides a geospatial representation of hydrology, including the movement, distribution, and quality of water. It covers surface water, groundwater, hydrogeology, drainage basin management, and water quality, aligned with definitions under the Water Act 2007. The dataset is a hosted feature layer containing elements like rivers, bores, springs, coastlines, and tidal limit markers.
Use Cases
Mapping surface water features like rivers and bays for environmental watershed sustainability assessments.
Managing groundwater resources by locating bores and springs for hydrogeological studies.
Defining administrative boundaries for water management using tidal limit markers and coastline data.
Supporting drainage basin management and water quality monitoring through integrated hydro area and line features.
Strengths
Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au indicates established importance and use.
Managed by a specific government organization, Spatial Services (DCS), suggesting authoritative sourcing.
Explicitly aligned with the legal definitions of the Water Act 2007, providing regulatory relevance.
Limitations
Critical metadata is missing: row count, column details, file size, license, and author are listed as unknown or 'None'.
The dataset is scheduled for retirement, indicating it uses an outdated spatial reference (GDA94) that may misalign in GDA2020 environments.
Descriptions are truncated (e.g., 'Surfa'), suggesting incomplete documentation.
Provenance
Source
Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales Government
Collection Method
Hosted feature layer service, likely compiled from government hydrological surveys and mapping.
Time Range
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Freshness
2026-04-09 18:01:18.681129
Geography
New South Wales, Australia
This GDA94 service is RETIRING. Users must transition to the GDA2020 service to avoid spatial misalignments. A multiCRS service is available for GDA2020, GDA94, and WGS 84 ≈ GDA2020 environments.