Water Sharing Plan Regulated River Water Sources in New South Wales

Spatial Services (DCS) provides a geospatial dataset depicting regulated river water sources as defined in gazetted Water Sharing Plans under the NSW Water Management Act 2000. The data represents an aggregation from In Force Sharing Plans for regulated systems. The dataset was initially published and last updated on 28/08/2024.

Use Cases

• Mapping regulated river boundaries for water resource planning based on gazetted Water Sharing Plans.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between water sources and surface water storages based on the definition of regulated rivers.
• Supporting compliance and allocation monitoring for licensed water entitlements based on the regulated river regime.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly linked to legally defined and gazetted Water Sharing Plans under the NSW Water Management Act 2000.
• Spatial reference systems (GDA94 and WGS84) are specified, ensuring geographic interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being specific to New South Wales.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water via Spatial Services (DCS).

Collection Method

Best endeavours aggregation and depiction from In Force Water Sharing Plans (WSP) for regulated systems.

Freshness

Data currency is 28/08/2024.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.