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New South Wales River Styles spatial dataset

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 18/10/2025

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The NSW River Styles is a spatial dataset that contains over 220,000 km of river length in NSW and records information (attributes) for each discrete section (reach) of river using the River Styles Framework.
A River Style is a discrete river type, defined according to its valley setting, planform, bed material and assemblage of geomorphic units. The River Styles Framework is an approach to geomorphologically informed river management that was developed at Macquarie University (https://riverstyles.com/river-styles-framework). The four stages in the River Styles Framework, cover the description of river morphology, interpretation of behaviour, assessment of condition, prediction of river recovery potential and prioritisation of river management Assessments use a range of data including recent and historical imagery, elevation data, along with field assessments to validate the desktop assessments and gather better data on bed material, and geomorphic features and condition. Individual reaches are then considered in context of upstream and downstream reaches and then broader sub-catchment and catchment scale processes, threats and connections, such as erosion and sediment transport, landuse and riparian vegetation.

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Title New South Wales River Styles spatial dataset
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/22b6f147-fb5e-4c59-bc7c-0f18bb55a86c
Remote Last Updated 08/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2008 - 31/03/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        141,
        -37.7
      ],
      [
        141,
        -28
      ],
      [
        154,
        -28
      ],
      [
        154,
        -37.7
      ],
      [
        141,
        -37.7
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "New South Wales River Styles spatial dataset". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-new-south-wales-river-styles-spatial-dataset