The Sustainable Management of Coastal Groundwater Resources (SMCGR) project aims to improve groundwater management in coastal dune aquifers supplying the Mid North Coast region. It addresses pressures from urbanisation and tourism, focusing on sustainable yield to prevent ecosystem impacts and seawater intrusion. The dataset is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated on 2026-04-16.
Use Cases
- Model groundwater sustainable yield based on aquifer characteristics.
- Assess risks of seawater intrusion based on groundwater withdrawal data.
- Plan for urban development impacts based on groundwater pressure descriptions.
- Evaluate ecosystem dependencies based on shallow groundwater resource mentions.
Strengths
- Project focuses on a specific geographic region (Mid North Coast).
- Addresses a concrete environmental issue (seawater intrusion from over-extraction).
- Last updated date is explicitly provided (2026-04-16).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:27:00.296560; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Mid North Coast region, Australia