Groundwater monitoring statewide

The Water Measurement Information System (WMIS) is a great place to visualise bore locations on a map, and graph monitoring data online and to download data for:

• current and historic State Observation Bore Network (SOBN)bores; and
• bores of the Regional Water Monitoring Partnership.

As well, WMIS is currently hosting legacy agreed data sets such including the AgVic Dryland Salinity Bore Network.

WMIS is a great place to get data to understand what is happening with our groundwater resources at a state scale, as well as to access some specific historic data.

Victorian Groundwater Bores

To expand access to data and information around a broader set of bores, DEECA has built a tool to visually locate and access metadata, and to link to monitoring data of a broader range of bores. Accessed at Victorian Goundwater Bores

Like WMIS, Victorian Groundwater Bores hosts:

• the current and historic SOBN bores and
• bores operating under the Regional Water Monitoring Partnership.

In addition, the Victorian Groundwater Bores hosts:

• all bores registered with the Victorian Water Register. These are bores that have been constructed historically and under licence for extraction, or other purposes.
• older short term data sets previously held by the Groundwater Management System and displayed on the older version of WMIS. This information is being provided for research and completeness. The quality/provenance of some of this historic bore data, including the older domestic and stock bores, minerals is unknown and is not guaranteed by DEECA.

Victorian Groundwater Bores operates differently to WMIS. Layers are automatically updated from their primary sources (WMIS and the Victorian Water Register) at scheduled intervals . This means you can view and select from the multiple bore layers without needing to download them in order to use GIS software. However, the raw data is accessible from the Vector Data Platform for you to use directly.

The Victorian Water Register

To find bore completion records, lithology, and drillers logs look no further than the Victorian Water Register. Records of bore purpose and construction for bores registered in Victoria are submitted and held by Victoria Water Register (waterregister.vic.gov.au)

If you are constructing a new bore for investigation, monitoring and observation purposes you must register via My water - Water Register Final bore completion information may be submitted tot he Water Register.

On WMIS you will find bore completion data, lithology and stratigraphy for SOBN.

Visualising Victoria's Groundwater

Visualising Victoria's Groundwater (VVG) is another at tool for visualising information across. It is privately funded tool hosted by Federation University and can be found here: Visualising Victoria's Groundwater (vvg.org.au)