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snippet: Groundwater salinity data provides useful information about the quality of groundwater resources. The Salinity layer depicts bores with groundwater salinity...
summary: Groundwater salinity data provides useful information about the quality of groundwater resources. The Salinity layer depicts bores with groundwater salinity...
extent: [[112.921483549326,-43.6430523072181],[159.130996704135,-9.21993999993094]]
accessInformation: We request attribution as © Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology) 2020
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maxScale: 1.7976931348623157E308
typeKeywords: ["Data","Service","Map Service","ArcGIS Server"]
description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><DIV STYLE="font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN><SPAN>Groundwater salinity data is collected by State and Territory water agencies and delivered to the Bureau in line with the Water Regulations.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Groundwater salinity data in the Explorer is updated at least annually. The currency of the data varies per area and/or data provider.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Salinity data is measured in one of two ways:</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in units of milligrams per litre (mg/L), which measures the weight of dissolved content per litre of water.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Electrical Conductivity (EC) in units of micro-Siemens or milli-Siemens per centimetre (µS/cm or mS/cm). Electrical Conductivity is a reliable estimator of the salinity of water.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Information about groundwater </SPAN><SPAN>salinity</SPAN><SPAN> fields:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>HydroCode</SPAN><SPAN>—</SPAN><SPAN>Jurisdictional bore and pipe/outlet identifier (if relevant) e.g. GW030285.1.1 in NSW, 90001A in QLD</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Agency—Name of agency responsible for managing the bore</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN>e.g. Department for Environment and Water</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Salinity</SPAN><SPAN>—Availability of salinity data</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>SalinityCount—Number of salinity measurements</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>SalinityDateMin—Earliest date of salinity data</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>SalinityDateMax—Latest date of salinity data</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
licenseInfo: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><DIV STYLE="font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN><SPAN>Creative Commons Attribution V4.0 (CC BY 4.0)</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
catalogPath:
title: Bore Salinity
type: Map Service
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tags: ["NGIS","National Groundwater Information System","Australian Groundwater Explorer","Australian Groundwater Insight","aquifer","bore","groundwater","hydrogeology","Australia","Bureau of Meteorology"]
culture: en-AU
name: Bore_Salinity
guid: 99DDA775-EF90-41B5-B3B2-A4DF4611DCD0
minScale: 0
spatialReference: GCS_GDA_1994