The NSW Office of Water monitors groundwater level and quality through its network of groundwater observation bores across New South Wales.
The network comprises continuous monitoring sites of which over 200 are tele-metered and available as Real-time data. Manual monitoring is undertaken at more than 3,000 groundwater monitoring bores.
Our groundwater monitoring network plays an important role in:
- assessing groundwater conditions, volumes, recharge rates and saline intrusion
- managing groundwater, including groundwater access, allocations and extraction, protecting aquifers and bores
- providing data for the development of groundwater sharing plans.
Groundwater data is also available:
- on Pineena Groundwater DVD, which provides data from more than 3,400 groundwater sites
- at NSW groundwater data archive reports with information about 100,000 licensed water bores, wells and excavations.