River Basin Maps and Water Monitoring Gauging Station Details (Pinneena Maps)

A series of maps that show water monitoring stations (gauging stations) across New South Wales. This map series, formerly known as the Pinneena maps, was created as part of a major project in 2011.

Each map includes stations which fall in the following categories:

  • Current with significant data: Gauging stations that were active and have significant data or had been established as of March 2011.
  • Current without significant data: Gauging stations that were active but didn't have significant data as of March 2011.
  • Discontinued or moved: Gauging station that had been closed or moved to another organisation to maintain as of March 2011.

A water monitoring station (gauging station) is a location on a stream, canal, lake or reservoir from which an observer or tool takes systematic readings of the gauge height or discharge. Hydrologists use these continuous records to make predictions and decisions concerning water level, flood activity and control, navigation, and the like. Note: The maps are best displayed at A3 paper size.

Data disclaimer

These water monitoring station maps were created as part of a project completed in March 2011, and have not been updated to include more recent data or information. The information contained in these maps should be used as a reference only, as the actual location or category of some gauging stations may have changed.

The maps use the following datasets (all licensed under ‘Creative Commons Attribution’) supplied by other agencies:

  • Spatial Services (New South Wales Department of Customer Service) Hydro Line (Rivers/Creeks) spatial data is a dataset of mapped watercourses and waterbodies in NSW. They can be referenced as ‘ NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework – Water – NSW Hydro Line’. © Spatial Services [2011]
  • WaterNSW Real time data of monitoring stations can be accessed through WaterNSW Real-time data website: https://www.waternsw.com.au/waterinsights/real-time-data Reference: The material is subject to copyright under the Copyright Act 1968, and it is owned by the State of New South Wales through WaterNSW. WaterNSW encourages the availability, dissemination and exchange of public information. You may copy, distribute, display, download and otherwise freely deal with the information for any purpose, on the condition that you include the copyright.

Note: In addition to the attached individual catchment maps PDFs (which can be printed off one at a time), there is also a MERGED version consolidating all of the individual PDFs into a single ATLAS of Maps PDF. This particular pdf (which is designed to be printed A3 back-to-back) is attached and titled: zz_PINNEENA_A3_MARCH2011_FINAL.pdf

Data and Resources

Additional Information

Field Value
Published (Metadata Record) 02/03/2026
Last updated 03/03/2026
Organisation Australian Federal Government
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Update Frequency Unknown