NSW Flood Data Portal

The purpose of this tool is to produce a generic flood investigation brief document in accordance with the requirements of the NSW Government Flood Program. The tool should be...

The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) is considering the development of a database containing information relating to floodplain risk management (FRM) to...

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has engaged the NSW Department of Commerce's Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (MHL) to carry out a review of the features and applications...

SMEC Australia was engaged by the Specialist Coastal and Flood Services Branch of the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC) to undertake an evaluation of the...

Water Resources Consulting Services was commissioned by the NSW Public Works Dams and Civil Section to determine the design levee crest levels to Australian Height Datum (AHD),...

The town of Bourke on the Darling River in New South Wales has a population of about 3,600 and is protected from flooding by a 10km levee surrounding the town. The levee was...

The review document - "Review of Floodplain Management Practice in New South Wales", published in May 1989 by the Public Works Department and Department of Water Resources...

As a result of the considerable suffering and financial losses in the widespread flooding of 1986, 1987 and 1988, a Task Force was appointed by the Government in November 1988...

"This report presents the results of a search of meteorological and wave data bases for storm events during the period May 1980 to the end of December 1985. Storms, defined by...

"Early on Tuesday 5th August an intense secondary low-pressure system developed unexpectedly near Newcastle. The centre of the system hovered above the Central Coast for most of...

"The New South Wales coast has a recorded history dating back more than one hundred years of damage to beaches and shoreline development caused by storms and other coastal...

The Rural Water Commission of Victoria and the Water Resources Commission of New South Wales in 1984 commissioned Gutteridge Haskins and Davey Pty. Ltd., Cameron McNamara Pty....

"The problems associated with elevated ocean levels during significant storm events in NSW have become increasingly apparent over the last two decades as development along the...

"The lower Namoi Valley is an alluviated valley which occupies an area of 5100 km in northern New South Wales. The valley contains a sequence of non-marine alluvial deposits of...

The Laboratory was delegated certain functions in the flood data programme in minute 14B on file 81/379/000 dated 5/7/84. This working paper reviews the activities of the...

This report has been prepared for issue to landholders on the floodplains of Sandy Creek and Poison Waterholes Creek from Kywong downstream to Narrandera. It outlines a system...

The Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) provides financial and technical support to councils with the preparation and implementation of flood studies and flood risk...

This paper describes from an historical perspective, the commencement of flood mitigation, the transition into floodplain management and the evolution of floodplain management...

This manual is superseded by the NSW Floodplain Development Manual 2005 (https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Water/Floodplains/floodplain-...