Water

Sub-Theme

Groundwater Bores

Theme 
Water
Aggregator 
Bureau of Meteorology

Nationally consistent set of groundwater bores (including monitoring, irrigation and commercial bores) and associated lithology, construction and hydrostratigraphy logs. The National Aquifer Framework has been used to standardise the hydrogeological unit terminology for this dataset.

National Datasets in this Sub-Theme

National Groundwater Bores

Purpose

The groundwater bores dataset collates, standardises and spatially enables groundwater bore and bore log data held by the lead water agency in each State and Territory into a single, national repository. The dataset facilitates spatial, inter-jurisdictional and national analysis of groundwater data

Dataset Uses

Government agencies use this data to better manage water resources.

The National Groundwater Information System is released through the Bureau of Meteorology which provides the contextual and spatial data needed to interpret the time-series groundwater data (level and chemistry) submitted to the Bureau of Meteorology through the Water Regulations (the Commonwealth legislation that requires named agencies to deliver water data to the Bureau of Meteorology under the Water Act 2007).

Standards and Specifications

AS1199.0-2003 Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes
AS4590:2006 Interchange of client information
ISO19100 series Geographic information
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specification 1.1.0 (OGC Document No. 04-094)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification 1.3.0 (OGC Document No. 06-042)

Access and Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Quality

The Bureau of Meteorology maintains the data model that defines the structure of the National Groundwater Information System geodatabase. The lead water agencies in each State and Territory (plus the Water Corporation in WA) export and standardise data from their corporate groundwater databases into State and Territory NGIS geodatabasesThe Bureau of Meteorology then performs quality assurance and control on the State and Territory geodatabases and collates them into the national geodatabase.

The dataset includes a unique spatial identifier for each feature.

Current Status

The dataset currently contains more than 800,000 bores and associated logs. The Bureau of Meteorology is the custodian of the dataset. They update the national dataset from State/Territory on an annual basis

Future Status

Long term objectives include:

  • derive 2.5D and 3D products to represent the geometry of hydrogeological units

Key Users

Key users of the ground water are Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local governments and the Research and Industry sectors.

Version

1.00

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