89EA8DBDF40F73C8E050CD9B21440C4DEnglishData Requests OfficerDepartment of Lands, Planning and EnvironmentGeospatial Services Unit (on behalf of department)Datarequests.DLPE@nt.gov.au2022-10-25AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile1.0 Water Control Districts in the Northern Territory2000-01-142022-09-30Water Control Districts (WCDs) are areas declared where there is a need for enhanced management for the sustainability of groundwater and surface water resources. Under the Northern Territory Water Act 1992, the Minister can declare WCDs. WCDs are declared in areas where there is a high level of competition for water and/or require closer management of the water resources. Within the WCD a bore construction permit is required, water allocation plans can be developed and water extraction licences are required unless there is a specific exemption in place. There are 8 declared water control districts in the Northern Territory: - Darwin Rural declared 2 June 1999 - Gove declared 18 September 2002 - Daly Roper Beetaloo declared 30 September 2022 - Tenant Creek declared 15 July 2009 - Western Davenport declared 15 July 2009 - Ti Tree declared 21 October 2009 - Alice Springs declared 4 July 2007 - Great Artesian Basin declared 3 February 2010 Download the spatial data package (contains spatial data, maps and reports) via https://data.nt.gov.au/ You are licensed to use the DEPWS geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products. You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement: Supplied by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Copyright Northern Territory Government.English-26-101291382000-01-142022-09-30datasetnot knownComplete. 0not knownAll polygons are closed and labelled using the prescribed data dictionary.0not knownData stored in geographic coordinates using horizontal datum GDA94.0not known All polygons attributed using the data dictionary as described below.0The boundary extent for each of the Water Control Districts were created using a range of GIS software with reference to cadastral boundaries, topographic, hydrogeological, surface water and/or catchment datasets. The details of each boundaries are described on each water control districts government gazettes.