Water

Sub-Theme

Groundwater

Theme 
Water
Aggregator 
Bureau of Meteorology

Nationally consistent set of groundwater boundaries and properties including aquifer boundaries, geometry, salinity, yield and hydraulic conductivity. The Interim Aquifer Framework has been used to standardise the hydrogeological unit terminology for this dataset.

National Datasets in this Sub-Theme

National Groundwater

Purpose

The groundwater dataset has been developed to collate and integrate State/Territory and regional groundwater mapping datasets across Australia. Although there are gaps in information every effort has been made to reduce or minimise inconsistencies and conflicts in overlapping or abutting datasets, and in attribution and definitions of the input datasets

Dataset Uses

The dataset is intended to be used at the regional to national scale and does not support local scale groundwater conceptualisation and modelling, and has not incorporated local and regional groundwater modelling data.

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

Government agencies use this data to better manage water resources. The Australian Hydrological Geospatial fabric (Geofabric) is released through the Bureau of Meteorology which provides a framework for discovering, querying, reporting and modelling water information aligned with the definitions under the Water Act 2007 .

Government agencies use this data the manage assets that interact with the water network.

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

Groundwater boundaries and properties obtained from both State/Territory and Commonwealth agencies represent the best available regional and national scale digital groundwater data available at the time of collation.

Current Status

The dataset is maintained by the Bureau of Meteorology. It may be updated periodically to address user feedback

Future Status

Long term objectives include:

  • Updating the hydrogeological unit terminology from the Interim Aquifer Framework to the National Aquifer Framework
  • Adding groundwater boundary and property datasets created using the National Groundwater Information System including 2.5 and 3D datasets

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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