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Streambanks 3rd Order Strahler and Above 40m Buffer - Cessnock LGA

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 13/11/2025

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The Department of Planning provides support to Local Government to enable evidence-based planning decisions. Biodiversity and Conservation Division collaborated with Cessnock City Council in 2021-2022 to deliver environmental map layers (Environmental Lands Study) that facilitate council’s review of their Local Environment Plan. This dataset is one of those and maps all streambanks of larger streams in the 196,468-hectare Cessnock Local Government Area using the Strahler system to identify stream type. All tenures were mapped excluding National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) estate because they are formally reserved and protected under Local Environment Plans and were outside of the scope of the Environmental Lands Study. Data is in vector format and was produced to a scale range of 1:500 – 1:3000. The process for delineating streambanks for the Cessnock LGA began by mapping stream order, then adding LiDAR and NearMap imagery as a basemap. The technique of hillshading was then used to show the streambank top edge and topographic features of streambanks. All streams higher than 2nd order were buffered by 100m to create the area of interest (AoI) for mapping streambanks. High resolution Light (or Laser) Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) was converted to a hillshade to facilitate the delineation of 3rd order and above streambanks. Streambanks were mapped at a scale of 1:3,000 as lines using a pen graphic tablet and the dataset saved to a file geodatabase. Streambanks were then buffered by 40m (as required by the Water Management Act 2000) and any areas where streambanks where more than 80m apart were eliminated.

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Title Streambanks 3rd Order Strahler and Above 40m Buffer - Cessnock LGA
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/4981f4db-bea2-49c4-897f-48c31a644715
Remote Last Updated 23/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/06/2022
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Streambanks 3rd Order Strahler and Above 40m Buffer - Cessnock LGA". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-streambanks-strahler-3rd-order-and-above-buffered-40m-cessnock-lga