The context statement for each bioregion or subregion brings together information that is known about the region at the time of writing. The product includes information on the ecology, hydrology, geology and hydrogeology of the area of interest.
Contents
For each bioregion or subregion, the context statement contains information about:
- the geographical boundaries
- demographics and land and water use
- key water-related features such as floodplains, dams and waterways
- hydrogeology and groundwater quality, including connectivity between water sources
- details on the area’s topography, soil and land types and vegetated cover
- detailed regional climate analysis
- key geological and structural features
- surface water hydrology and water quality, including impact of human activity
- surface water – groundwater interactions
- ecology, including information on groundwater-dependent ecosystems and regional biodiversity.
Purpose
The context statement is important because it provides baseline information relevant to understanding the regional water resources in a bioregion or subregion within which coal and coal seam gas development may occur.
Information collected improves understanding of how the whole system functions and is relevant to interpreting the results of modelling and impact and risk analysis undertaken in each bioregional assessment.
This product does not include any new analysis or modelling for the area, it is essentially a stocktake of existing information and knowledge.
Published products
- Bioregional Assessment Program
- Lake Eyre Basin bioregion
- Northern Inland Catchments bioregion
- Clarence-Moreton bioregion
- Northern Sydney Basin bioregion
- Sydney Basin bioregion
- Gippsland Basin bioregion
- Indigenous assets
- Methods
- Bioregional assessment methodology
- Submethodologies
- Compiling water-dependent assets
- Assigning receptors to water-dependent assets
- Developing a coal resource development pathway
- Developing the conceptual model of causal pathways
- Surface water modelling
- Groundwater modelling
- Receptor impact modelling
- Propagating uncertainty through models
- Impacts and risks
- Systematic analysis of water-related hazards associated with coal resource development
- Assessment components
- Metadata and datasets
- Geological and Bioregional Assessment Program