Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment-Richmond River Estuary

Created 17/08/2025

Updated 17/08/2025

This asset relates to the Richmond River and consists of the outputs from hydrodynamic modelling undertaken by the University of New South Wales Water Research Laboratory (WRL) to investigate changes in salinity dynamics under sea level rise and possible changes to catchment hydrology.
Three different sea level scenarios were modelled, a present-day sea level, a sea level increase of 0.20 m and an increase of 0.55 m. A series of hydrological sensitivity tests were also run to explore system sensitivity to changes in flow and changes in freshwater flushing events. This asset comprises the full technical report written by WRL, timeseries data for each model scenario run, and all the run files required to re-run the model using RMA software.

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Title Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment-Richmond River Estuary
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e7d80344-b6b1-476f-a75e-ec3e4514a41e
Remote Last Updated 11/08/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1900 - 31/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        153.03,
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      ],
      [
        153.03,
        -28.71
      ],
      [
        153.61,
        -28.71
      ],
      [
        153.61,
        -29.22
      ],
      [
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      ]
    ]
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}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment-Richmond River Estuary". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-saltwater-intrusion-vulnerability-assessment-richmond-river-estuary