TITLE River Murray Flood Mapping
REVISION DATE 2009-01-07
RESPONSIBLE PARTY - CUSTODIAN
ORGANIZATION'S NAME Planning SA (South Australian data) and Murray-Darling Basin
Authority (SA border to Lake Hume)

THEMES OR CATEGORIES OF THE RESOURCE inlandWaters, environment
THEME KEYWORDS
KEYWORDS Australia
THESAURUS
TITLE ANZLIC Jurisdictions
THEME KEYWORDS
KEYWORDS WATER Hydrology, WATER Surface, HAZARDS Flood
THESAURUS
TITLE ANZLIC Search Words

ABSTRACT
River Murray Flood Mapping represents the extent of flooding based on historical
records and some associated information (eg. flood depth contours and levels)
captured by two different projects for (1) the River Murray from the mouth to the
South Australian border, and (2) the River Murray from the South Australian border to
Lake Hume. The flood information for the South Australian section of the River Murray
was obtained from the South Australian Government by the Murray-Darling Basin
Authority (MDBA), and represents the extent of the 1956 flood. The information for the
River Murray upstream of the South Australian border was produced for the MDBA to
support environmental planning along the River Murray, such as NSW Murray Regional
Environmental Plan No 2 (note that the flood information was collected in a uniform
and consistent fashion for both the NSW and Victorian sides of the floodplain).
Accuracy and reliability of mapping was subject to the quality of data available at the
time the mapping was undertaken. The Victorian Department of Natural Resources and
Environment (DNRE), who undertook the flood information mapping upstream of South
Australia on behalf of MDBA as part of a Natural Resource Management Strategy
(NRMS) project, is currently producing detailed metadata to support the mapping, for
example specifying the sources of data for each flood information segment. Please note
that the flood mapping data is preliminary until complete metadata has been
constructed.

DATASET LANGUAGE English
STATUS completed
MAINTENANCE
UPDATE FREQUENCY notPlanned

Resource constraints
Legal constraints
Use Constraints  copyright

Limitations of use
© Commonwealth of Australia (Murray–Darling Basin Authority) 1999. Some data contributed by the South Australian government.

Resource constraints
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Use Constraints  license

Limitations of use
With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, photographs, the MDBA logo or other logos and emblems, any material protected by a trade mark, any content provided by third parties, and where otherwise noted, all material presented in this publication is provided under a 
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence.
 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au

The MDBA’s preference is that you attribute this publication (and any MDBA material sourced from it) using the following wording within your work:

Title: River Murray Flood Mapping
Source: Licensed from the Murray-Darling Basin Authority under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence. Some data contributed by the South Australian government.
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority does not necessarily endorse the content of this publication.


EXTENT
GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT
BOUNDING RECTANGLE
WEST LONGITUDE 138.760633
EAST LONGITUDE 147.032588
NORTH LATITUDE -33.890845
SOUTH LATITUDE -36.203017
TEMPORAL EXTENT
BEGINNING DATE 1998-01-01
ENDING DATE 1999-12-31