Waterway — Drainage lines

This dataset is available on Brisbane City Council’s open data website – data.brisbane.qld.gov.au. The site provides additional features for viewing and interacting with the data and for downloading the data in various formats.

This dataset includes waterway drainage lines within the Brisbane City Council area represented by their centrelines.

Waterways consist of a defined channel with a bed and banks that carry constant or intermittent flows of surface water. The land area draining to a waterway is defined as its catchment.

These were modelled in 1994 to represent the length of waterways. To achieve a linear network, drainage lines are generated through waterbodies to connect upstream and downstream waterways. They do not represent the natural centreline.