Hunter Surface Water data extracted 20140718

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 the known details at the time of acquisition.

The New South Wales Office of Water (NOW) provides to the Bureau of Meteorology a copy of their hydstra surface water database. The last extract was received in July 2013.

Data was extracted from the Hydstra format to .csv files for surface water sites within the Hunter region.

This included Average:

Daily discharge in ML/day from 9am-9am

Temperature

EC

Turbidity

Site details including locational information is contained in the 'Gauges_Clip_HUN_Outside_Streamflow_Gauges_3.xlsx'file. This also includes a list of sites that are not included in the hydstra extract

Quality codes are explained in the Data Quality Codes file

Purpose

The Hunter SW data was extracted from hydstra for the purpose of the Bioregional Assessments project.

Dataset History

The New South Wales Office of Water (NOW) provides to the Bureau of Meteorology a copy of their hydstra surface water database. The last extract was received in July 2013.

Data was extracted from the Hydstra format to .csv files for surface water sites within the Hunter sub-region as requested by the Hunter project team.

Quality codes and ratings tables have been included.

Where surface water quality data is available, this is included on a separate tab for each gauging station

Dataset Citation

NSW Office of Water (2013) Hunter Surface Water data extracted 20140718. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 13 March 2019, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/8c2e867b-ee7d-44f5-90b0-dd46677fedac.