Water Sharing Plans for Unregulated River Water Sources in NSW

Spatial Services (DCS) provides a best-endeavours aggregation of unregulated river water source boundaries derived from legally binding Water Sharing Plans under the Water Management Act 2000. The dataset is available via WMS and ArcGIS REST service formats. A metadata and data quality statement is available on the NSW SEED portal.

Use Cases

• Mapping water resource boundaries based on the derived unregulated river water sources.
• Analyzing water allocation plans based on the legally binding Water Sharing Plan field.
• Integrating water management data into GIS systems using the provided WMS and ArcGIS REST service formats.

Strengths

• Derived from legally binding Water Sharing Plans under the Water Management Act 2000.
• Includes a metadata and data quality statement with lineage information on the NSW SEED portal.
• Can be aggregated using the Water_Sharing_Plan field to determine specific plan boundaries.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 03:29:22.336092; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia