Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment-Richmond River Estuary

This asset relates to the Richmond River and consists of the outputs from hydrodynamic modelling undertaken by the University of New South Wales Water Research Laboratory (WRL) to investigate changes in salinity dynamics under sea level rise and possible changes to catchment hydrology.

Three different sea level scenarios were modelled, a present-day sea level, a sea level increase of 0.20 m and an increase of 0.55 m. A series of hydrological sensitivity tests were also run to explore system sensitivity to changes in flow and changes in freshwater flushing events.

This asset comprises the full technical report written by WRL, timeseries data for each model scenario run, and all the run files required to re-run the model using RMA software.


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Data Source:
  • SEED
Data and Resources
PDF
Metadata Statement - Richmond.pdf
PDF
WRL TR2024-35 MAY 2025 - Richmond Report.pdf
ZIP
TR2024-35 – Richmond Model Files.zip
ZIP
TR2024-35 - Richmond Model Output Data.zip
Additional Information
Field Value
Title Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment-Richmond River Estuary
Date Published 11/08/2025
Last Updated 11/08/2025
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency asNeeded
Temporal Coverage 01/01/1900 - 31/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Data Portal SEED