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Monthly restrictions on diversions from unregulated streams, Victoria, version 2025-10-30

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Rows 47,061Fields 3Fetched 3 October 2026Source SHA-256 b983e543dd097296…

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  • data.arrow307 KB Arrow: Arrow IPC file (Feather v2), zstd compressed, with the provenance in the schema metadata. Memory-maps in pyarrow, Polars, Arrow JS and R without parsing.
  • data.csv2.3 MB CSV: UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, RFC 4180 quoting, one header row using the normalised field names. Opens in Excel, Numbers and Sheets.
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  • data.json4.0 MB JSON: One object with a publicdata header (publisher, licence, attribution, version, source hash), a fields list and a records array of 47,061 objects with typed values. Blank cells are null.
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  • data.xlsx1.0 MB Excel: One workbook with a records sheet of 47,061 typed rows, a fields sheet and a publicdata sheet with the provenance. Dates are real Excel dates. Opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice and Sheets.
  • manifest.json1.5 KB
  • schema.json482 B
  • schema.sql742 B
  • source.xlsx202 KB

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Attribution the licence asks for

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victorian Government, Stream restrictions, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/stream-restrictions, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Provenance

Fetched from www.water.vic.gov.au on 3 October 2026. The portal listed the licence as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International at that moment. manifest.json has every detail.

05001k1.5k2010: 72820102011: 702012: 24920122013: 7342014: 65620142015: 9132016: 77020162017: 6032018: 95920182019: 1,0212020: 68020202021: 5792022: 35320222023: 3502024: 5572024
Stream-months recorded as Ban per year, 2010 to 2024. Rows where restriction status is Ban are drawn. 2025 is not drawn because the rows run to 22 September 2025. A count of rows in this version, worked out in the build.
Change from the version before

First version followed here.

When the publisher releases again, this panel shows rows added, removed and changed by stream, month_end, with a link to the diff file.