Water Sharing Plan Groundwater Sources and Management Zones in New South Wales

New South Wales groundwater sources and management zones defined by gazetted Water Sharing Plans under the NSW Water Management Act 2000. The dataset contains polygon features representing stacked aquifers, with fields indicating surface and deeper aquifer levels. It was published and last updated by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water on August 28, 2024.

Use Cases

• Map groundwater source boundaries based on polygon features.
• Analyze the spatial stacking of aquifers based on fields with subscript notation for different aquifer levels.
• Aggregate management zones for specific Water Sharing Plans based on the Water_Sharing_Plan field.

Strengths

• Data is derived from In Force gazetted Water Sharing Plans, suggesting an official legal basis.
• The schema explicitly models stacked aquifers with up to five subscripted levels (e.g., _1 to _5).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water

Collection Method

Derived from gazetted Water Sharing Plans under the NSW Water Management Act 2000.

Freshness

Data currency date is 28/08/2024.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia