IMAS Metadata Catalogue
National Outfall Database
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.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-03-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-06-30T00:00:00
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Temporal resolution
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- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2016-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- Date
- 2019-01-01T00:00:00
- Date type
- update
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Concentration of faecal coliform bacteria
- Concentration of ammonia {NH3} 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
- Concentration of Ammonia Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body
- Concentration of Nitrate Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body
- Biological oxygen demand 5 days (BOD5)
- Total Dissolved Solids
- Concentration of Oil and Grease
- Concentration of Calcium per unit volume of the water body
- BOD Filtered
- Concentration of Sodium per unit volume of the water body
- Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN)
- Concentration of Magnesium per unit volume of the water body
- Chemical Oxygen Demand
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This record is hosted by the Institute of Marine Science (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) on behalf of the Clean Ocean Foundation Inc.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- 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.
- Other constraints
- 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).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
- Concentration of faecal coliform bacteria
- Name
- CFU/100ml
- Name
- Concentration of ammonia {NH3} per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
Identifier
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UUPH
- Name
- pH units
- Name
- Concentration of total nitrogen {TN} per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of total phosphorus {TP} per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Ammonia Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Nitrate Nitrogen per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Biological oxygen demand 5 days (BOD5)
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Total Dissolved Solids
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Oil and Grease
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Calcium per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- BOD Filtered
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Sodium per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN)
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Concentration of Magnesium per unit volume of the water body
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Chemical Oxygen Demand
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
- Name
- Surfactants (MBAS)
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMGL
- Name
- Milligrams per litre
Identifier
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/USTU
- Name
- Nephelometric Turbidity Units
- Name
- Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR)
- Name
- ratio (no units)
Identifier
- Name
- microSiemens per centimetre (µS/cm)
- Name
- Total Algae Count
- Name
- Cells/mL
- Name
- Total Blue-Green Algae Count
- Name
- Cells/mL
- Name
- Blue-Green Algal Bloom
- Name
- Frequency
- Name
- Flow Volume
- Name
- Megalitres (ML)
- Name
- Enterococci
- Name
- organisms/100mL
- Name
- E-coli
- Name
- organisms/100mL
- Name
- Faecal Coliforms
- Name
- organisms/100mL
- Name
- Total Coliforms
- Name
- organisms/100mL
- Name
- Colour
- Name
- Pt.Co. Units
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- CSV
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - NOD sampling 2014-2022 [CSV]
- OnLine resource
-
NESP:NESP_NationalOutfallDatabase_MAP
MAP - National Outfall Database sampling sites
- OnLine resource
-
NESP_NationalOutfallDatabase
This OCG WFS service returns the outfall data for download in multiple formats, including CSV.
- OnLine resource
- National Outfall Database website
- OnLine resource
- NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C4 website
- OnLine resource
- NESP Project C4 [ANDS RDA record]
Resource lineage
- 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.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/21448123-0170-4aff-9b56-2b6aa21c73ed
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/21448123-0170-4aff-9b56-2b6aa21c73ed
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-10T08:53:36
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-05-18T09:53:14
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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