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Identification

Field Value

Title

Reliable Surface Water in NSW

Abstract

This map was created by the Department of Primary Industries (Office of Water) in 2013 to identify areas in NSW with a reliable surface water supply. Land with reliable surface water was defined as areas:

  • buffering all regulated rivers and creeks by 150 metres,
  • buffering unregulated rivers and creeks with a 5th stream order or higher, by 150 metres,
  • buffering 3rd and 4th stream order unregulated rivers and creeks, by 150 metres

Reliable surface water mapping along with two other datasets (rainfall of 350mm for more per annum - 9 out of 10 years and highly productive groundwater) are used to identify land with access to a reliable water supply, forming part of the regional and site level assessment classification of Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL).

Under the Mining SEPP, all State Significant Development applications require a Site Verification Certificate to determine if their site contains any BSAL and therefore requiring further assessment from the Mining and Petroleum Gateway Panel. This process is managed by Planning and Assessment, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment and are custodian of the dataset.

A pdf map and GIS shapefile of this dataset is accessible from the resources section of the metadata.

Resource locator

Data Quality Statement

Name: Data Quality Statement

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Data quality statement for Reliable surface water in NSW

Function: download

NSW Reliable Surface Water map

Name: NSW Reliable Surface Water map

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

PDF map of Reliable Surface Water in NSW - June 2013

Function: download

Download Package

Name: Download Package

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Data (Shapefile).

Function: download

Unique resource identifier

Code

f20cb804-3f4f-4ad7-8512-bf00f124629a

Presentation form

Map digital

Edition

1.0

Dataset language

English

Metadata standard

Name

ISO 19115

Edition

2016

Dataset URI

https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/opendata/dataset/f20cb804-3f4f-4ad7-8512-bf00f124629a

Purpose

One intended purpose is to be used as part of the Site Verification Certificate (SVC) process to determine if land contains Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land.

Status

Completed

Spatial representation

Type

vector

Geometric Object Type

surface

Spatial reference system

Code identifying the spatial reference system

4283

Spatial resolution

0 m

Additional information source

GIS attribute fields

Regulated Rivers - (Regulated_River_areas_Buf150m)

  • NameWSPlan - Title of water sharing plan associated with river or creek
  • WtrSharPln - Water sharing plan
  • Wtr_Source - Source of river/creek
  • RivCk_name - Name of regulated river or creek
  • WSP_Status - Status of water sharing plan in 2003
  • StartDate - Start date of water sharing plan
  • End_Date - End date of water sharing plan
  • Comments - Notes about the watercourse or water sharing plan
  • Plan_No - Version of water sharing plan

Unregulated rivers and creeks - (Reliable_River_Areas_SO_5plus_Buf150m) & (Reliable_River_Areas_SO_3and4_Buf150m)

  • HydroName - Name of watercourse
  • HydroNType - Type of watercourse (e.g. river or creek)
  • Strahler - Stream order number of watercourse segment (using the Strahler classification method)

Classification of spatial data and services

Field Value

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Field Value

Keyword set

keyword value

WATER-Groundwater

WATER-Quality

Originating controlled vocabulary

Title

ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date

2008-05-16

Geographic location

NSW Place Name

New South Wales

Vertical extent information

Minimum value

-100

Maximum value

2228

Coordinate reference system

Authority code

urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG::

Code identifying the coordinate reference system

5711

Temporal extent

Begin position

2004-07-01

End position

N/A

Dataset reference date

Resource maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Contact info

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Full postal address

NSW

Australia

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Quality and validity

Field Value

Lineage

This map was derived from the merging of three buffered (150 metres) drainage datasets incorporating regulated rivers/creeks and all watercourses with a stream order classification of three or greater. The resulting areas are identified as having reliable surface water in NSW

The regulated rivers dataset was based on existing water sharing plan (WSP) during 2013 and information about the WSPs are provided in the attribute table of the GIS shapefile. Other watercourse datasets used the Strahler classification method to assign stream order to watercourse segments.

Constraints related to access and use

Field Value

Constraint set

Use constraints

This data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Attribute 'NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water' in publications using this data.

Limitations on public access

Data Quality

Field Value

Scope

dataset

DQ Conceptual Consistency

Effective date

2021-04-14

Explanation

The three described datasets identifying reliable surface water are provided in the download resource package. This was the method that DPI Water delivered the GIS package originally in 2013.

In some situations, rivers identified using stream order, may also have a water sharing plan and regulated. Linework for these areas have both been preserved in the GIS datasets under each category. Also all buffered surfaces within the GIS files have been kept in the three datasets and as a result, some overlapping of features occur and are intended/valid. These may occur around the intersection of watercourses.

Responsible organisations

Field Value

Responsible party

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Full postal address

NSW

Australia

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Field Value

Metadata point of contact

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Full postal address

NSW

Australia

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-26T13:34:43.813403

Metadata language