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National Outfall Database

University of Tasmania, Australia
Perraton, Simon ; Gemmill, John ; Qurratu, A'yunin Rohmana ; Cumming, John ; Fischer, Andrew
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The data collected in this study is intended to be used to assist decision makers to understand risk and prioritise investment, to help the public understand water and wastewater management and make decisions when choosing recreation locations, and private operators seeking to re-use wastewater or products found within wastewater. Each outfall is divided into three levels of data; one (1) being basic information such as location, treatment, governance and size; two (2) being more detailed information taken from publicly available annual environmental monitoring reports, licence and other information; and three (3) containing highly detailed information such as daily performance data and receiving waters ecosystem assessments and studies to enable researchers and others to undertake comparative studies. The data custodian will make a data report and methodology available to provide a full explanation of this database. The National Outfall Database is an online resource available here: https://www.outfalls.info/ The database currently tracks 48 indicators across 192 monitoring sites. The data is also available for download in CSV format in the online resources section of this record, and will continue to be updated as new data becomes available (data currently available to 30/06/2022 - last checked 19/01/2024.Maintenance and Update Frequency: irregularStatement: The wastewater effluent quality data were collected from local government area websites and through information request form water authority key personnel. The water quality data samples were analysed using the approved methods for the sampling and analysis of water pollutants in New South Wales (Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) 2015). 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The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Clean Ocean Foundation Inc and the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.

Data was sourced from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub - The Marine Biodiversity Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program (NESP), administered by the Department of the Environment (DOE).

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The National Outfall Database (NOD) project addresses the need of government and community to understand the impacts on health and the ocean environment that occur from sewerage outfalls around Australia. This dataset is part of the assessment and mapping of the marine impacts of wastewater disposal to ocean and estuarine waters in Australia. The data collected in this study is intended to be used to assist decision makers to understand risk and prioritise investment, to help the public understand water and wastewater management and make decisions when choosing recreation locations, and private operators seeking to re-use wastewater or products found within wastewater. Each outfall is divided into three levels of data; one (1) being basic information such as location, treatment, governance and size; two (2) being more detailed information taken from publicly available annual environmental monitoring reports, licence and other information; and three (3) containing highly detailed information such as daily performance data and receiving waters ecosystem assessments and studies to enable researchers and others to undertake comparative studies. The data custodian will make a data report and methodology available to provide a full explanation of this database. The National Outfall Database is an online resource available here: https://www.outfalls.info/ The database currently tracks 48 indicators across 192 monitoring sites. The data is also available for download in CSV format in the "online resources" section of this record, and will continue to be updated as new data becomes available (data currently available to 30/06/2022 - last checked 19/01/2024.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: irregular
Statement: The wastewater effluent quality data were collected from local government area websites and through information request form water authority key personnel. The water quality data samples were analysed using the approved methods for the sampling and analysis of water pollutants in New South Wales (Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) 2015). The range of monitoring data collected from each wastewater treatment plant was between April 2012 and March 2016 for New South Wales and January 2015 and December 2015 for Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory and Tasmania. The database provides wastewater quality parameters that water authorities were required to collect under EPA licence requirements. Parameters include but are not limited to pH, ammonia (NH3) mg/L, total nitrogen (TN) mg/L, total phosphorus (TP) mg/L, biochemical oxygen demand 5 days (BOD5) mg/L, faecal coliform bacteria cfu/100ml, total suspended solids mg/L, and oil and grease mg/L.

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National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub

Modified: 30 06 2022

Data time period: 2016-01-01

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Subjects
Biological Sciences | BOD Filtered | Biological oxygen demand 5 days (BOD5) | Blue-Green Algal Bloom | Chemical Oxygen Demand | Colour | Concentration of Ammonia Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of Calcium per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of Magnesium per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of Nitrate Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of Oil and Grease | Concentration of Sodium per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of ammonia {NH3} per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of faecal coliform bacteria | Concentration of suspended particulate material per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of total nitrogen {TN} per unit volume of the water body | Concentration of total phosphorus {TP} per unit volume of the water body | E-coli | EARTH SCIENCE | Ecology | ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS | ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Sciences | Electrical conductivity of the water body | Enterococci | Environmental Monitoring | Faecal Coliforms | Flow Volume | HUMAN DIMENSIONS | Marine and Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | OCEAN CONTAMINANTS | OCEANS | SEWAGE DISPOSAL | Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR) | Surfactants (MBAS) | Temperate Reef | Total Algae Count | Total Blue-Green Algae Count | Total Coliforms | Total Dissolved Solids | Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN) | Turbidity of the water body | WATER MANAGEMENT | WATER QUALITY | land/onshore structure | oceans | pH (total scale) of the water body |

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(DATA ACCESS V1.1 - SAMPLES - most current version available from NOD website [CSV direct download])

uri : http://nod.outfalls.info/query/csv/samples_table/

(DATA ACCESS V1.2 - INDICATORS - most current version available from NOD website [CSV direct download])

uri : http://nod.outfalls.info/query/csv/indicators_table/

(DATA ACCESS V1.3 - LOCATIONS - most current version available from NOD website [CSV direct download])

uri : http://nod.outfalls.info/query/csv/locations_table/

(National Outfall Database website)

uri : https://www.outfalls.info/

(NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C4 website)

uri : http://www.nespmarine.edu.au/project/project-c4-national-outfall-database

(NESP Project C4 [ANDS RDA record])

purl : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nesp/mb/c4

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