Water for the Environment Hydrometric Monitoring Stations Across NSW

New South Wales hydrometric stations monitor water levels, flow, rainfall, and temperature. The dataset, compiled by the DCCEEW CPHR Water for the Environment team, is a snapshot from August 2025. It covers catchments including the Murray, Murrumbidgee, north coast, south coast, Gwydir, Hunter, Greater metropolitan, Lachlan, and Macquarie-Castlereagh.

Use Cases

• Calibrating water models based on monitored water quantity and quality data.
• Informing environmental health management based on water level and temperature readings.
• Supporting emergency response planning based on flow and rainfall monitoring.
• Assessing water resources across specific NSW catchments like the Murray or Murrumbidgee.

Strengths

• Spatial reference system is explicitly defined as GDA2020.
• Data is sourced from a specific government department (NSW DCCEEW).
• Covers multiple monitored parameters: water levels, flow, rainfall, and temperature.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW CPHR).

Collection Method

Compiled by the Water for the Environment team from hydrometric monitoring stations.

Time Range

Snapshot from August 2025.

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 5/08/2025.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia, covering specified catchments.