Victorian Public Dams and Retarding Basins - Unrestricted

dataset: PUBLIC_DAM_RETARDING_BASIN_POINTS_UNRESTRICTED
This dataset represents public dams and retarding basins in Victoria. The dataset is a point dataset. This is the unrestricted version of the data for display on the DEECA public website. For Water Corporations, Parks Victoria and AGL Hydro, this data is an extract from the FloodZoom Dams Portal used for annual dam safety reporting. The Dams Portal has two types of water storages, namely Facilities and Reservoirs. A facility can have many water bodies e.g., a water treatment plant with many ponds. A reservoir can have many dams e.g., one body of water with one main dam and several saddle dams. It is Water Storage Locations layer, one of datasets displayed in the interactive map https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/webmap/owof_storages/. This interactive webmap is embedded in https://www.water.vic.gov.au/water-sources/victorias-dams
 
Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2025)

Victorian Public Dams and Retarding Basins - Unrestricted

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

Topic category
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
DELWP Categories
  • Inland Water ResourcesFacilities & Structures
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
This information is for operational purposes only. This data may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the data is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this dataset. 
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Unclassified  
 

Other Dataset Details

Date ( Publication )
2025-03-20T14:46:11
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Purpose
Record locations of public dams and retarding basin in Victoria 
Credit
Data is provided by dam owners 
Format
Shapefile 
Supplemental Information
Initial data load September 2023 - Water Corporation dams from the dams portal. 
Maintenance and update frequency
Biannually  
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
Points in Latitude and Longitude Depending on the dam owner data, some points are located at centroid of the water body and others are located at the dam wall. 
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

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Temporal

Begin date
2023-01-01 
End date
2023-06-30 
 

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy
100m  
 

Quality

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Missing Data
Initial dataset contains dams from Water Corporations, Parks Victoria and AGL Hydro only. 

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Description
Subset of data from databases 
Statement
This data has been collated from a variety of DEECA databases. The data is owned by the dam owners and a subset is provided for operational purposes only. 
 

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Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 0d1fd54c-047f-4916-9378-3364d3559b64

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Resource Type
Dataset  
Date info ( Creation )
2023-09-06T14:28:07
Date info ( Revision )
2025-10-10T13:45:09
Standard Name
ISO 19115-3:2018 
Profile Name
DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

Metadata Constraints

Use limitation
This information is for operational purposes only. This data may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the data is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this dataset. 
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Unclassified  
 
 

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