State Environment Protection Policy Waters Segments for Victoria, 2018

The State Environment Protection Policy (Waters) Segments 2018 dataset defines spatial boundaries for environmental management in Victoria. It is published by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action on data.gov.au under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset was last updated on April 9, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map environmental quality objectives based on segment boundaries.
• Identify applicable beneficial uses for water bodies based on spatial location.
• Support regulatory compliance assessments using the defined policy segments.

Strengths

• Provides official spatial boundaries for a key environmental policy.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (EXTENDED TAB, MIF, SHP, GDB, DXF, TAB, DWG).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is April 9, 2026.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Time Range

Policy released in 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 04:20:56.980290

Geography

Victoria, Australia