ACTGOV Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch Monitored Reach - Annual Data Waterbodies

Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch engages the community in the environment through monitoring and caring for our catchments. We educate and raise awareness in schools and the community on issues concerning catchment health and we use data collected by volunteers to inform policy and on ground catchment management. Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch volunteers collect data on water quality, waterbug diversity and abundance, and riparian vegetation condition at over 200 sites in the catchment. To use these data to assess the health of our waterways and the broader catchment, sites are grouped into reaches (segments of waterways and/or related waterbodies) and the data are summarised and presented by reach. To ensure that data collected from a small number of sites can be considered representative of a reach, reaches consist of similar sections of waterway as defined by criteria including the size (magnitude / stream order), surrounding land uses, and underlying geology of the included waterways and waterbodies. This dataset contains annual scores of the water quality, waterbug diversity and abundance, riparian vegetation condition and overall health of individual reaches (related waterbodies) in the Upper Murrumbidgee River catchment, 2015 - 2024. Scores are calculated from monthly water quality data collected by Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch volunteers, and waterbug and riparian vegetation assessments conducted by Waterwatch staff. Detailed methods can be found in the Catchment Health Indicator Program (CHIP) reports produced each year by Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch: https://www.act.waterwatch.org.au/data/chip-reports The data are best viewed using the Waterwatch interactive map and data dashboard.上默伦比奇水资源观察项目（Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch）通过对本流域的监测与保护，引导公众参与生态环境保护事业。本项目面向学校与社会公众开展科普教育，提升大众对流域健康相关议题的认知，并依托志愿者采集的数据为政策制定与流域实地管理提供决策支撑。该项目志愿者在流域内200余个监测点位采集水质、水生昆虫多样性与丰度以及河岸植被状况相关数据。为依托此类数据评估河道及更广范围流域的健康状况，监测点位被划分为若干河段（河道及/或相关水体的片段），并按河段对数据进行汇总与呈现。为确保少量点位采集的数据能够代表对应河段的整体情况，河段的划分以河道与水体的规模（量级/河流级别）、周边土地利用类型及基底地质条件为依据，确保同河段内的河道片段具有相似性。本数据集涵盖2015年至2024年期间，上默伦比奇河流域各河段（相关水体）的水质、水生昆虫多样性与丰度、河岸植被状况以及整体健康状况年度评分。评分基于上默伦比奇水资源观察项目志愿者采集的月度水质数据，以及项目工作人员开展的水生昆虫与河岸植被状况评估结果计算得出。详细的方法说明可查阅上默伦比奇水资源观察项目每年发布的《流域健康指标项目（Catchment Health Indicator Program, CHIP）》报告，链接为：https://www.act.waterwatch.org.au/data/chip-reports。该数据集建议通过Waterwatch交互式地图与数据仪表板进行查看。