Victorian river basins

Abstract

This dataset was supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and is presented here as originally supplied. Metadata was not provided and has been compiled by the Bioregional Assessment Programme based on known details at the time of acquisition.

This layer provides the boundaries of the River Basins of Victoria, and is part of a system devised by the Australian Water Resources Council (AWRC). The basins within Victoria are contained within two drainage divisions; the Murray Darling Division and the South East Coast Division.

Purpose

This dataset identifies major river catchment boundaries, and can be used in conjunction with other data sets to form the basis of regional water and land resource planning and management, and to assist in other forms of planning.

Dataset History

The base maps were interpreted by Environmental Science students at Rusden College using 1:100 000 topographic maps. Boundaries were inferred from the contours and the upper level stream system. For approximately six mapsheets contours were not available and the boundaries were derived from and the upper level stream system. In the flatter areas, such as the Wimmera, boundaries are fairly arbitrary. Centre for Land Protection Research then digitised these drafted boundaries. They have now been put into ArcSDE for MapShare purposes.

This is a copy of the metadata description held at Data.vic.gov.au

Dataset Citation

Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (2015) Victorian river basins. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 05 October 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/01269b84-ebf1-4f9f-a100-1820e8bed267.