This dataset contains the extent, name and unique ID number of the Drainage Basins in the State of Queensland, as defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).
Resource purpose/summary
To provide an authorative single point of truth for the extent of Drainage Basins in the State Queensland. It is suitable for use in land administration, emergency and water management, monitoring of climate change, hydrological modelling, topographic and vegetation mapping and in the production of navigational and web based mapping applications.
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Contact—individual name
DNRME, LANDS, LSI, TDIM, Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Contact—organization name
Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
Contact—position name
Senior Spatial Information Officer, Topographic Data Management
Dataset created and owned by Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy for the State of Queensland using base information owned by Federal Government Agencies and has no use limitations.
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Security use limitations
The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy)
Unrestricted to all levels of government and community. Data is available to all government agencies, community groups and individuals. Dataset is available through physical supply and may be made available via web delivery tools, for example, through DNRME's internet sites.
Supplemental information about the data
The dataset was captured at 1:100 000.
The seaward edge of this data aligns with the Coastline and State Border - Queensland dataset.
Feature Types: DRAINAGE BASIN - A region of land where water from rain drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, dam, wetland, sea or ocean. The extent of land covered by a drainage basin was originally determined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).
Attributes: BASIN_NAME - The name of the Drainage Basin BASIN_NUMBER - A unique number allocated to the Drainge Basin
Australia is divided into a number of Drainage Divisions, Queensland is covered by five Drainage Divisions -Bulloo, Gulf, Lake Eyre, Murray Darling and North East Coast and each is allocated a unique ID number Those rivers flowing into the Coral Sea in Queensland are classified as being within the North East Coast Drainage Division which has been allocated the number one (1) Drainage Divisions are broken into smaller Drainage Basins based on the major rivers in those divisions e.g. Burdekin Drainage Basin, Fitzroy Drainage Basin. All Drainage Basins are allocated a unique ID number starting with the unique ID number of the Drainage Division they are within. Based on the unique number of the Drainage Basin, a user can determine which Drainage Division the basin is within. All drainage Basins within the North East Coast Drainage Division have been allocated a unique number starting with 1. e.g. The Burdekin Drainage Basin is number 12, the Fitzroy Drainage Basin is number 14 and so on.
Flow is determined using low rainfall. It areas of flat terrain, high rainfall can cause water to flow across watersheds.
This dataset is stored in an ESRI Geodatabase. Some columns names may be shortened if downloaded in the ESRI shape format.
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Capture is complete
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Data should be free from overshoots, undershoots, duplicate lines. Drainage lines should not cross division boundaries.
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Accuracy of the data is dependent on the accuracy of the elevation data of the associated 1:100000 topographic map. This data is suitable for scales 1:100000 and greater.
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Attribute naming was validated against the names supplied by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC) and has an accuracy of 100%.
Data Lineage
Lineage statement, a general explanation
The location of Australia’s Drainage Basins were originally defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC). To accurately plot the location of the boundaries, the definition of the basins were compared with 1:100000 topographic mapping (published and unpublished) and the location of the watershed based on the contours was plotted onto hard copy maps. These plotted lines were later digitised to create a spatial dataset. With the 1:250000 drainage network as a background, checks were made to ensure that no drainage lines crossed a division boundary.
Drainage Basins are subsets of and have boundaries that are aligned to and nested with the associated Drainage Division. Please refer to the Drainage Division - Queensland dataset.
In 2020, the seaward edge of the data was moved to align with the Coastline and State Border - Queensland dataset.
Entity and Attribute Information
details available on request
This page should be cited as:
Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (n.d.) Drainage basins – spatial metadata, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/get-mapping-help/metadata/basin/
— Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation