Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016 Public 20170112 v02

## **Abstract** 

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 data set holds the publicly-available version of the database of water-dependent assets that was compiled for the bioregional assessment (BA) of the Hunter subregion 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.



This dataset contains the unrestricted publicly-available components of spatial and non-spatial (attribute) data of the (restricted) Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016 (a39290ac-3925-4abc-9ecb-b91e911f008f). 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 Hunter Asset database has a total count of 182 277 Elements (and 2 545 Assets). In the public version of the Asset Hunter database 69 330 spatial Element features (\~38%) have been removed from the Element List and Element Layer(s) and 1124 spatial Assets (\~44%) 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) Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - RESTRICTED - Metadata only) (7276dd93-cc8c-4c01-8df0-cef743c72112) 

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

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

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

4) Hunter CMA GDEs (DPI pre-release) - RESTRICTED - Metadata only (469d6d2e-900f-47a7-a137-946b89b3d188)

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.

## **Purpose** 

The data are for any external party that wants to access the asset database used for the assessment. The BATP is required to release these wherever possible, to comply with the requirements of transparency and repeatability.

## **Dataset History** 

The public version of the asset database retains all of the unrestricted components of the Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 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 in product 1.3: Description of the water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016, and the associated Water-dependent asset register and asset list for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 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

(&ne; No)	No	n/a	Asset is not included in the asset list or the water-dependent asset register

(&ne; No)	Yes	No	Asset included in published asset list but not in water dependent asset register

(&ne; 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 Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016, which this document describes, does not contain receptor information.

## **Dataset Citation** 

Bioregional Assessment Programme (2015) Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016 Public 20170112 v02. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 13 March 2019, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/9d16592c-543b-42d9-a1f4-0f6d70b9ffe7.

## **Dataset Ancestors** 

* **Derived From** [GW Element Bores with Unknown FTYPE Hunter NSW Office of Water 20150514](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e8b6a2f3-2951-4cdd-9570-871441120e02)

* **Derived From** [Travelling Stock Route Conservation Values](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/198900d5-0d06-4bd0-832b-e30a7c4e8873)

* **Derived From** [NSW Wetlands](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/90476e12-77a2-4970-a0be-942eeb84e95e)

* **Derived From** [Climate Change Corridors Coastal North East NSW](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0a1b4dc6-07a4-4f2b-acc2-000eed75db22)

* **Derived From** [Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c01c4693-0a51-4dbc-bbbd-7a07952aa5f6)

* **Derived From** [Climate Change Corridors for Nandewar and New England Tablelands](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d480bd52-c46a-41ae-bab8-0e8d7620160b)

* **Derived From** [National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e358e0c8-7b83-4179-b321-3b4b70df857d)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 27 August 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9e1c414c-1752-4bd8-83ff-c137b7d9f9ce)

* **Derived From** [Birds Australia - Important Bird Areas (IBA) 2009](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5d488350-83b6-4e71-8d17-687ad8ff9941)

* **Derived From** [Estuarine Macrophytes of Hunter Subregion NSW DPI Hunter 2004](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fb7bf5a0-f0e3-429b-9b54-0d4b58fb49c2)

* **Derived From** [Hunter CMA GDEs (DRAFT DPI pre-release)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/469d6d2e-900f-47a7-a137-946b89b3d188)

* **Derived From** [Camerons Gorge Grassy White Box Endangered Ecological Community (EEC) 2008](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cc77d836-86d3-429d-b0ab-1599cff00414)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 16 June 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/24f007de-94e1-4a50-b8e8-46d5cceb5c66)

* **Derived From** [Spatial Threatened Species and Communities (TESC) NSW 20131129](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a6664894-1489-46d1-a6ca-16f9ab519a28)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 24 February 2016](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a39290ac-3925-4abc-9ecb-b91e911f008f)

* **Derived From** [Threatened migratory shorebird habitat mapping DECCW May 2006](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cc0b62a0-ded7-4c14-b954-1552337b395e)

* **Derived From** [Gosford Council Endangered Ecological Communities (Umina woodlands) EEC3906](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/485b84ef-7f56-40b3-bf25-5ba359dd4623)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water Surface Water Offtakes - Hunter v1 24102013](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d94064ab-6d03-4a40-9484-1579afa9269b)

* **Derived From** [National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas (including WA)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6dbaee0d-8813-46b1-9c13-1b796e7ed3bf)

* **Derived From** [Asset list for Hunter - CURRENT](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/51b1e021-2958-4cd3-8daa-ba46ece09d1c)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water Surface Water Entitlements Locations v1_Oct2013](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fc872710-998e-4c76-8b98-1df383c53de6)

* **Derived From** [Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database (BA subset - RESTRICTED - Metadata only)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7276dd93-cc8c-4c01-8df0-cef743c72112)

* **Derived From** [Ramsar Wetlands of Australia](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d65cc156-944d-4961-bfba-eacfd61db63a)

* **Derived From** [Native Vegetation Management (NVM) - Manage Benefits](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b299e256-1d37-4f89-8c51-93567ebf3753)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water Surface Water Licences Processed for Hunter v1 20140516](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/25d233eb-dbc4-4ca3-b200-1d1df2b5126c)

* **Derived From** [Groundwater Economic Elements Hunter NSW 20150520 PersRem v02](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7174b44f-7146-4b70-a77f-b55c989a3278)

* **Derived From** [Atlas of Living Australia NSW ALA Portal 20140613](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cb420b33-b828-40fe-a844-7fdbe828d4d6)

* **Derived From** [National Heritage List Spatial Database (NHL) (v2.1)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/26daa8d7-a90e-47f3-982b-0df362414e65)

* **Derived From** [Climate Change Corridors (Dry Habitat) for North East NSW](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8871574a-62ac-4b59-9cc3-bc991a6abd57)

* **Derived From** [Groundwater Entitlement Hunter NSW Office of Water 20150324](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/19697f0a-4513-42a4-a7ce-4e00f48a715a)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 20 July 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/35bc515e-581a-4a7f-ae2a-c0b62b2c9169)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water combined geodatabase of regulated rivers and water sharing plan regions](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/24157c41-c42f-4e1f-a791-a1ad18c8215d)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 22 September 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/59d91125-2b58-4680-9ef0-645d77a9f76d)

* **Derived From** [Commonwealth Heritage List Spatial Database (CHL)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/57720684-4948-45db-a2c8-37259d531d87)

* **Derived From** [Australia World Heritage Areas](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4927789b-7ba7-4a77-b6fc-be1b29b6590c)

* **Derived From** [Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Forest EEC 2010](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5a8f525b-d602-4120-99a3-900fc05180e7)

* **Derived From** [New South Wales NSW Regional CMA Water Asset Information WAIT tool databases, RESTRICTED Includes ALL Reports](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a2a929ea-2cb3-42ab-86b9-87deac68acae)

* **Derived From** [Fauna Corridors for North East NSW](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c8b21575-8003-41ba-bb7e-378c2eb3486d)

* **Derived From** [Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) Spatial Database (Public)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6636846e-e330-4110-afbb-7b89491fe567)

* **Derived From** [HUN AssetList Database v1p2 20150128](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/64ecd565-bb7c-4f21-951e-f35966b91c99)

* **Derived From** [New South Wales NSW - Regional - CMA - Water Asset Information Tool - WAIT - databases](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/330532aa-66ba-44f5-984b-8a21a99661a0)

* **Derived From** [Climate Change Corridors (Moist Habitat) for North East NSW](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f8445d2e-ec1f-4f5a-99cc-7f90d1f96103)

* **Derived From** [Operating Mines OZMIN Geoscience Australia 20150201](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/65c0c042-1ba8-47a8-9793-4363672500b9)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water - National Groundwater Information System 20141101v02](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6c364d09-fc3b-47c3-aa98-6c702d3d8137)

* **Derived From** [Groundwater Economic Assets Hunter NSW 20150331 PersRem](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ca620380-3d67-43bb-811a-3cafdf41056a)

* **Derived From** [Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4eff885b-0d68-45e8-b4b1-e3e5448354eb)

* **Derived From** [Monitoring Power Generation and Water Supply Bores Hunter NOW 20150514](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/055adb26-5b43-451c-ad21-c9063f1d5aed)

* **Derived From** [Northern Rivers CMA GDEs (DRAFT DPI pre-release)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ac1bd285-5f50-46e2-bc04-b21e8e182a62)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water GW licence extract linked to spatial locations for NorthandSouthSydney v3 13032014](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6860cabb-372d-40c8-9ae8-f097021d35ef)

* **Derived From** [Australia, Register of the National Estate (RNE) - Spatial Database (RNESDB) Internal](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/878f6780-be97-469b-8517-54bd12a407d0)

* **Derived From** [Asset database for the Hunter subregion on 12 February 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/dcf8349e-aaed-4d30-80ab-1c8cbad8fe68)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water Groundwater Entitlements Spatial Locations](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0f4da0d0-9e82-42f3-84da-1148e0b730c1)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water Groundwater Licence Extract, North and South Sydney - Oct 2013](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b48f941e-b557-411f-aebd-e3c463b60614)

* **Derived From** [NSW Office of Water - GW licence extract linked to spatial locations for North and South Sydney v2 20140228](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0e6034bc-7a91-46c9-80e0-0e3330a0b7da)

* **Derived From** [Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010 (Not current release)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7b649c6d-fdbf-40e3-b002-db521665af53)

* **Derived From** [Darling River Hardyhead Predicted Distribution in Hunter River Catchment NSW 2015](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/643c6228-6435-4f5a-9f09-5f53efe234d2)



Tags: Hunter subregion, economy, inlandWaters, society
Organization: Bioregional Assessment Program