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Victorian Public Dams and Retarding Basins - Unrestricted

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 16/11/2025

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This dataset represents public dams and retarding basins in Victoria. The dataset is a point dataset. This is the unrestricted version of the data for display on the DEECA public website. For Water Corporations, Parks Victoria and AGL Hydro, this data is an extract from the FloodZoom Dams Portal used for annual dam safety reporting. The Dams Portal has two types of water storages, namely Facilities and Reservoirs. A facility can have many water bodies e.g., a water treatment plant with many ponds. A reservoir can have many dams e.g., one body of water with one main dam and several saddle dams. It is Water Storage Locations layer, one of datasets displayed in the interactive map https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/webmap/owof_storages/. This interactive webmap is embedded in https://www.water.vic.gov.au/water-sources/victorias-dams

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Title Victorian Public Dams and Retarding Basins - Unrestricted
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/34fb9fd3-dc8c-478d-9e33-8f0c7832579a
Remote Last Updated 25/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 20/03/2025
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Victorian Public Dams and Retarding Basins - Unrestricted". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victorian-public-dams-and-retarding-basins-unrestricted