Salinity Potential of Western Sydney

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

This map depicts the distribution and potential severity of dryland salinity based on biophysical factors that are known to cause dryland salinity. The mapping shows four classifications of salinity potential:; 1.Areas of Known Salinity ; 2.Areas of High Salinity Potential ; 3.Areas of Moderate Salinity Potential ; 4.Areas of Very Low Salinity Potential ; The map and accompanying guidelines are an extension of (and incorporate) the previous work, Draft Salinity Hazard Map for Western Sydney. They cover the Wianamatta Shales geological group on the Cumberland Plain, which essentially covers the area of Western Sydney, north to Windsor and south to Campbelltown.

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Field Value
Title Salinity Potential of Western Sydney
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5dbc09a9-266d-4458-91d0-a6a2b0bf5fca
Remote Last Updated 26/02/2024
Contact Point
Reference Period 08/01/2000 - 01/01/2002
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        151.0723,
        -33.9856
      ],
      [
        151.0723,
        -33.0917
      ],
      [
        150.3274,
        -33.0917
      ],
      [
        150.3274,
        -33.9856
      ],
      [
        151.0723,
        -33.9856
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Salinity Potential of Western Sydney". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-salinity-potential-of-western-sydney473ff