Water Sharing Plan Regulated River Water Sources in New South Wales

A gazetted depiction of regulated river water sources under the NSW Water Management Act 2000. The dataset contains polyline features defined in Water Sharing Plans for regulated systems, as aggregated from In Force Sharing Plans. It was initially published and last updated on 28 August 2024 by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water.

Use Cases

• Mapping regulated river networks based on gazetted Water Sharing Plan boundaries.
• Analyzing water allocation frameworks based on the definition of regulated water sources.
• Supporting water resource planning and compliance monitoring based on the spatial depiction of regulated systems.

Strengths

• Spatial data is based on gazetted legal plans, providing an authoritative source.
• Data currency is specified as 28 August 2024, indicating recent publication.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• 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

Best endeavours aggregation and depiction derived from In Force Water Sharing Plans.

Freshness

Data Update Frequency is listed as API, with a Data Currency date of 28/08/2024.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia