The dataset was derived by the Bioregional Assessment Programme. This dataset was derived from multiple datasets including Natural Resource Management regions, and Australian and state and territory government databases. You can find a link to the parent datasets in the Lineage Field in this metadata statement. The History Field in this metadata statement describes how this dataset was derived.
This data set holds the publicly-available version of the database of water-dependent assets that was compiled for the bioregional assessment (BA) of the Gippsland Basin bioregion as part of the Bioregional Assessment Technical Programme. Though all life is dependent on water, for the purposes of a bioregional assessment, a water-dependent asset is an asset potentially impacted by changes in the groundwater and/or surface water regime due to coal resource development. The water must be other than local rainfall. Examples include wetlands, rivers, bores and groundwater dependent ecosystems.
A single asset is represented spatially in the asset database by single or multiple spatial features (point, line or polygon). Individual points, lines or polygons are termed elements.
This dataset contains the unrestricted publicly-available components of spatial and non-spatial (attribute) data of the (restricted) Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016 (3db02ad5-1ed0-4f82-b25a-3a16734a3a89). The database is provided primarily as an ESRI File geodatabase (.gdb), which is able to be opened in readily available open source software such as QGIS. Other formats include the Microsoft Access database (.mdb in ESRI Personal Geodatabase format), industry-standard ESRI Shapefiles and tab-delimited text files of all the attribute tables.
The restricted version of the Gippsland Asset database has a total count of 480036 Elements and 5426 Assets. In the public version of the Asset Gippsland database 74549 spatial Element features (~15%) have been removed from the Element List and Element Layer(s) and 764 spatial Assets (~14%) have been removed from the spatial Asset Layer(s)
The elements/assets removed from the restricted Asset Database are from the following data sources:
(1) SouthernRuralWater SW Locations with BOM RegsCat6Volumes Gippsland 20150430 (59f17548-3dbe-41a8-92f2-3b39ebbb0584)
(2) Unreg Surface Water Licences DELWP Gippsland 20150301 (0353426b-403d-4d4b-aac0-75afb55e1176)
(3) Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database (BA subset - RESTRICTED - Metadata only) (7276dd93-cc8c-4c01-8df0-cef743c72112)
(4)Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) Internal (878f6780-be97-469b-8517-54bd12a407d0)
(5)Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only (c01c4693-0a51-4dbc-bbbd-7a07952aa5f6)
(6)Groundwater Economic Assets Gippsland 20150427v02 (704aa85a-6f34-4ad5-a236-1ebdab249bd1)
(7)Surface Water Economic Assets Gippsland 20150430v02 (3331c840-c15a-4787-a509-2e71a37d6bfd)
(8)Sustainable Diversion Limits Surface Water with Volume Victoria 20150313 (65bf53dc-aeb5-4ca2-95e6-ce9535eeb843)
These important assets are included in the bioregional assessment, but are unable to be publicly distributed by the Bioregional Assessment Programme due to restrictions in their licensing conditions. Please note that many of these data sets are available directly from their custodian. For more precise details please see the associated explanatory Data Dictionary document enclosed with this dataset.
The public version of the asset database retains all of the unrestricted components of Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016. - any material that is unable to be published or redistributed to a third party by the BA Programme has been removed from the database. The data presented corresponds to the assets published Gippsland Basin bioregion product 1.3: Description of the water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016., and the associated Water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016..
Individual spatial features or elements are initially included in database if they are partly or wholly within the subregion's preliminary assessment extent (Materiality Test 1, M1). In accordance to BA submethodology M02: Compiling water-dependent assets, individual spatial elements are then grouped into assets which are evaluated by project teams to determine whether they meet materiality test 2 (M2), which are assets that are considered to be water dependent.
Following delivery of the first pass asset list, project teams make a determination as to whether an asset (comprised of one or more elements) is water dependent, as assessed against the materiality tests detailed in the BA Methodology. These decisions are provided to ERIN by the assessment team and incorporated into the AssetList table in the Asset database.
Development of the Asset Register from the Asset database:
Decisions for M0 (fit for BA purpose), M1 (PAE) and M2 (water dependent) determine which assets are included in the "asset list" and "water-dependent asset register" which are published as Product 1.3.
The rule sets are applied as follows:
M0 M1 M2 Result
No n/a n/a Asset is not included in the asset list or the water-dependent asset register
(≠ No) No n/a Asset is not included in the asset list or the water-dependent asset register
(≠ No) Yes No Asset included in published asset list but not in water dependent asset register
(≠ No) Yes Yes Asset included in both asset list and water-dependent asset register
Assessment teams are then able to use the database to assign receptors and impact variables to water-dependent assets and the development of a receptor register as detailed in BA submethodology M03: Assigning receptors to water-dependent assets and the receptor register is then incorporated into the asset database.
At this stage of its development, the Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016, which this document describes, does not contain receptor information.
Bioregional Assessment Programme (2015) Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016 Public. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 07 February 2017, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/fa57a214-ec1e-4ccb-af5e-0ea6e6eb47ed.
Derived From GIP AssetList Database v1.2 20150130
Derived From Flood Extent 100 year extent West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority GIP v140701
Derived From Surface Water Economic Entitlements GIP 20141219
Derived From Irrigation District Department of Environment and Primary Industries GIP
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 12 February 2015
Derived From Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 18 September 2015
Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas
Derived From Victorian Water Supply Protection Areas
Derived From Sustainable Diversion Limits Surface Water Vic DEPI 20150313
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 10 September 2015
Derived From National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) v1.1
Derived From Birds Australia - Important Bird Areas (IBA) 2009
Derived From Southern Rural Water SW Locations with BOM Regulations Category 6 Volumes Gippsland 20150430
Derived From Gippsland Project boundary
Derived From Victorian Groundwater Management Areas
Derived From Plantation Forests Public Land Management(PLM25) DEPI GIP 201410
Derived From Surface Water Economic Assets Gippsland 20150430v02
Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas (including WA)
Derived From Surface Water Entitlement Locations Gippsland Southern Rural Water 20141218
Derived From Ramsar Wetlands of Australia
Derived From National Groundwater Information System Victorian Extract (2014-03-21)
Derived From GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3
Derived From West Gippsland Regional Catchment Strategy Landscape Priorities WGCMA GIP 20121205
Derived From Groundwater Economic Elements Gippsland 20141120
Derived From Commonwealth Heritage List Spatial Database (CHL)
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 16 June 2015
Derived From Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems for West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
Derived From Victorian Biodiversity Atlas flora - 1 minute grid summary
Derived From Unreg surface water licences DELWP Gippsland 20150301
Derived From National Heritage List Spatial Database (NHL) (v2.1)
Derived From Gippsland Basin bioregion Asset List v01 - 20141210
Derived From Victorian Farm Dam Boundaries
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 04 March 2016
Derived From Groundwater Licences Entitlement Volume To Bores Vic DEPI 20141021
Derived From Surface Water and Groundwater Entitlement Data with Volumes - DEPI Regs Cat6 Victoria 20141218
Derived From Groundwater Economic Assets Gippsland 20150427v02
Derived From Victoria Regional CMA - Water Asset Information Tool - WAIT databases
Derived From Gippsland Basin bioregion Preliminary Assessment Extent (PAE)
Derived From Asset database for the Gippsland Basin bioregion on 09 June 2015
Derived From Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database
Derived From Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) Internal
Derived From Victorian Biodiversity Atlas fauna - 1 minute grid summary
Derived From Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems for East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
Derived From Ground Water Managment Area Victoria DEPI 201402
Derived From Victoria - Seamless Geology 2014
Derived From Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) Spatial Database (Public)
Derived From Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 (Not current release)
Derived From Victorian Ecological Vegetation Communities 2005 (with Bioregional Conservation Status)
Derived From Sustainable diversion limits surface water with volume Victoria 20150313