Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016 Public

Abstract

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 Sydney 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.

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. 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 Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016 (ae283994-5f14-4442-af0d-8f8c81eb657e). 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 Sydney Basin bioregion Asset database has a total count of 70 200 Elements and 1 460 Assets. In the public version of the Asset Sydney Basin bioregion database 16411 spatial Element features (\~23%) Elements (spatial features) have been removed from the Element List and Element Layer(s) and 518 spatial Assets (\~39%) 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) Identification of Culturally Significant Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems CSIRO 2010 (4d0bc9d9-7675-4e57-b0fd-750b323fde95)

2) Key Environmental Assets - KEA - of the Murray Darling Basin RESTRICTED (Metadata only)( 9948195e-3d3b-49dc-96d2-ea7765297308)

3)Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - RESTRICTED - Metadata only) (7276dd93-cc8c-4c01-8df0-cef743c72112)

4) Threatened migratory shorebird habitat mapping DECCW May 2006 (cc0b62a0-ded7-4c14-b954-1552337b395e)

5) Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) (Internal 878f6780-be97-469b-8517-54bd12a407d0)

6) Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only (c01c4693-0a51-4dbc-bbbd-7a07952aa5f6)

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.

Dataset History

The public version of the asset database retains all of the unrestricted components of the Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016 Public - 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 Cooper subregion product 1.3: Description of the water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016, and the associated Water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 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 Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016, which this document describes, does not contain receptor information.

Dataset Citation

Bioregional Assessment Programme (2015) Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016 Public. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 08 February 2017, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/b9ae0cb1-c58b-49be-8035-00b2a28efc47.

Dataset Ancestors

• Derived From Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 18 December 2015

• Derived From NSW Wetlands

• Derived From NSW Office of Water Surface Water Entitlements Locations v1_Oct2013

• Derived From An Estuarine Inventory for New South Wales, Australia VIS_ID 2224 20100723

• Derived From State Environmental Planning Policy no. 26 - Littoral Rainforest 19860101

• Derived From Surface Water Entitlements in Sydney sliver between different PAEs NSW Office of Water 20150717

• Derived From Geofabric Surface Network - V2.1

• Derived From Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only

• Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas

• Derived From NSW Wild Rivers Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) 20091001

• Derived From Birds Australia - Important Bird Areas (IBA) 2009

• Derived From Estuarine Macrophytes of Hunter Subregion NSW DPI Hunter 2004

• Derived From Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 29 March 2016

• Derived From Key Environmental Assets - KEA - of the Murray Darling Basin

• Derived From Spatial Threatened Species and Communities (TESC) NSW 20131129

• Derived From Threatened migratory shorebird habitat mapping DECCW May 2006

• Derived From Sydney Catchment Authority Water Licences and Approvals Package May 2012

• Derived From GW Economic Elements Sydney Basin 20150730

• Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas (including WA)

• Derived From NSW Office of Water SW Offtakes Processed - North & South Sydney, v3 12032014

• Derived From Groundwater Entitlement NSW Office of Water 20150526 PersConRemoved

• Derived From Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database (BA subset - RESTRICTED - Metadata only)

• Derived From NSW SW Share Components NSW Office of Water 20150717

• Derived From Macquarie Perch NSW DPI Fisheries 20150313

• Derived From NSW Office of Water identified GDEs

• Derived From Commonwealth Heritage List Spatial Database (CHL)

• Derived From Cumberland Subregion BIO Map Biodiversity Corridors of Regional Significance 20150804

• Derived From Travelling Stock Route Conservation Values

• Derived From Atlas of Living Australia NSW ALA Portal 20140613

• Derived From Purple Spotted Gudgeon NSW DPI Fisheries 20150317

• Derived From Identification of Culturally Significant Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems CSIRO 2010

• Derived From Southeast NSW Native Vegetation Classification and Mapping - SCIVI VIS_ID 2230 20030101

• Derived From National Heritage List Spatial Database (NHL) (v2.1)

• Derived From State Environmental Planning Policy no. 14 - Coastal Wetlands 19891027

• Derived From NSW Office of Water Surface Water Offtakes - North & South Sydney v1 24102013

• Derived From NSW Office of Water combined geodatabase of regulated rivers and water sharing plan regions

• Derived From Native Vegetation Management (NVM) - Manage Benefits

• Derived From SW Economic Elements Sydney Basin 20150730

• Derived From Australia World Heritage Areas

• Derived From Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 26 February 2016

• Derived From New South Wales NSW Regional CMA Water Asset Information WAIT tool databases, RESTRICTED Includes ALL Reports

• Derived From Illawarra Region BIO Map - Core Areas 20150430

• Derived From Old Growth Forest Mapping Broad, Central, 1996. VIS_ID 4122 2015 20150116

• Derived From NSW Office of Water SW Offtakes Processed - North & South Sydney, v2 07032014

• Derived From National Groundwater Management Zones BOM 20150730

• Derived From Illawarra Region BIO Map Corridors 20150430

• Derived From Cumberland subregion BIO Map Core Areas 20150804

• Derived From New South Wales NSW - Regional - CMA - Water Asset Information Tool - WAIT - databases

• Derived From Fitzroy Falls Spiny Crayfish NSW DPI Fisheries 20150316

• Derived From Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database

• Derived From Map of Critically Endangered Ecological Communities NSW Version 3 20150925

• Derived From Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) Internal

• Derived From Asset database for the Sydney Basin bioregion on 03 August 2015

• Derived From Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) Spatial Database (Public)

• Derived From Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 (Not current release)