Surface Water Management Areas (DWER-041)
Published by Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Description
Surface Water Management Areas for Western Australia were derived in consultation with the regional offices, geometry is based on hydrographic subcatchments. Regional Department of Environment officers identified areas of similar management requirements to define boundaries. Management areas will be used for licencing and administrative purposes. Purpose: The Surface Water Management Area data was developed in order to give a clear understanding of surface water availability and to provide management tools to make good water allocation and natural resources management decisions. Dataset was formally known as Surface Water Management Areas (DOW-020)
Resources
Surface Water Management Areas
File Geodatabase
Geopackage
GeoJSON
Shapefile
Licence Agreement
Web Feature Service
ArcGIS Server Map Service
Web Mapping Service
Metadata
- Licence
- Custom (Active Acceptance)
- Last Updated
- 10 Mar 2026
- Created
- 8 Dec 2015
- Update Frequency
- Infrequent
- Source Portal
- Wa
Dublin Core Metadata
- Publisher
- Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
- Creator
- Geospatial and Data Services Manager
- Type
- Dataset
- Language
- en
- Rights
- Custom (Active Acceptance)
- Spatial Coverage
- Western Australia, Australia
- Temporal Coverage
- 8 Dec 2015 – 10 Mar 2026
- Related Resources
- https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/e7024ca6-5356-4fab-ba21-cddff402550a/resource/f1ecf3b2-f73f-497e-829f-687aa5a9c050/download/gda2020_db.gisdba.swma_dow.met, https://data-downloads.slip.wa.gov.au/DWER-041/Geopackage, https://data-downloads.slip.wa.gov.au/DWER-041/GeoJSON, https://data-downloads.slip.wa.gov.au/DWER-041/Shapefile, https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/e7024ca6-5356-4fab-ba21-cddff402550a/resource/f356dd2b-8916-4928-a4fc-2a58be61a97c/download/dwer_datawa-active-acceptance-licence-agreement.pdf
- Subjects
- DWER, WATER Management, Water, Water Hydrology, Water Surface