Transitional Groundwater Resource Plan Boundaries for the Murray-Darling Basin

Geospatial boundary datasets for transitional groundwater resource plans as defined in Schedule 4 of Australia's Water Act 2007. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority created and maintains this data, which was last updated in April 2026. The data is provided in multiple geospatial file formats including KML, SHP, and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Map and visualize groundwater management zones based on the defined plan boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis for water resource planning based on the legal framework of the Water Act 2007.
• Integrate groundwater plan boundaries with other environmental or hydrological datasets for comprehensive basin management.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (KML, SHP, GeoJSON, WMS, WFS) for interoperability.
• The dataset is maintained by the authoritative Murray-Darling Basin Authority and was updated in April 2026.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and attribute details require manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Murray-Darling Basin Authority

Collection Method

Likely derived from legal and administrative definitions in Schedule 4 of the Water Act 2007.

Time Range

Current as of the 2026 update; specific temporal coverage of the plans is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 18:28:45.061175; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers the area of transitional groundwater resource plans within the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.