Victorian Catchment Management Authority Boundaries

Abstract

This data and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.

This layer represents the Catchment Management Authority boundaries (derived from CALP100).

The Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) were established on 1 July 1997 with the aim of creating a whole of catchment approach to natural resource management in the state. The new CMAs combined the roles of the former, River Management Boards and Catchment and Land Protection Boards, and community based advisory groups such as salinity plan implementation groups and water quality working groups. Port Phillip has also recently become a CMA.

Purpose

This dataset identifies the Catchment Management Authority boundaries. The definition of these administrative / cultural boundaries was required for legal process (definition of jurisdiction). The

boundaries can be used to subset other natural resource datasets.

Dataset History

Data Set Source:

The internal boundaries were largely derived from the LandCare boundaries coverage (a Centre for Land Protection Research coverage) that was primarily based on River basin boundaries. If the boundaries were not co-incident other sources were used such as 1:100,000 roads (ROAD100), and land management boundaries (LANDMMT100).The state boundary was derived from 1:100,000 hydrology (HYDRO100) and land management (LANDMMT100). The edits for the North East and East Gippsland boundaries were done by LICS Pty Ltd and then passed onto to CLPR.The changes were signed off by the minister 28/11/00.

Collection Method: maps

Processing Steps: -

Dataset Citation

"Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning" (2015) Victorian Catchment Management Authority Boundaries. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 05 October 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/c4ae7e61-ca07-43ee-b37f-c92cee9a6517.