2026-09-25 · Closed seasons · Our error · Corrected
South Australia’s Murray cod rule was linked but not computed, and the river pages read as if cod could be kept.
Checked against: PIRSA’s Murray cod page, read on 25 September 2026, against the eleven South Australian River Murray and Lower Lakes pages
Found: PIRSA does not allow Murray cod to be taken at any time from the River Murray or lakes Albert and Alexandrina: catch and release is allowed from 1 January to 31 July, except on the Chowilla floodplain, and cod may not be targeted at all from 1 August to 31 December. Our pages said cod were fished under PIRSA’s size and bag limits and any closed season, which suggested they could be kept.
Done: The rule is now computed on the species card of the eleven waters, with a release-only chip for January to July and a closed chip for August to December, and each page states that cod are never kept. The state hub and the Murray cod page carry the rule with the date it was read.
2026-09-24 · Water levels · Could not verify · Published with the caveat
Three river reaches were moved or renamed to the gauge that actually exists, and one has no gauge at all.
Checked against: The Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online time-series lists for the hundred river gauges of the second Phase 2 batch, 24 September 2026
Found: The Hunter at Maitland (210047) and the Macquarie at Ross in Tasmania (20.1) publish no water level series, and the Mary River at Shady Camp in the Territory has rainfall stations only. The Dawson at Theodore publishes a storage level of the weir pool rather than a river level, and the Murray at Renmark’s upstream station carries conductivity and temperature only.
Done: The Hunter page reads the Greta gauge (210064) and is named Hunter River at Greta; the Tasmanian Macquarie reads the Trefusis gauge (18217.1) and is named Macquarie River near Ross; Theodore reads the weir pool level and says so; Renmark reads the pump station gauge (A4260628). Shady Camp is published without a level module and says why. No gauge was borrowed from another reach.
2026-09-24 · Coordinates · Source was wrong or late · Handled
The Composite Gazetteer stores Victorian and Western Australian place names in capitals, so a mixed-case query found none of them.
Checked against: The Composite Gazetteer of Australia query service, while resolving the hundred coastal towns of Phase 2 batch 3 on 24 September 2026
Found: Twenty-nine towns in Victoria and Western Australia, from Port Fairy to Port Hedland, returned no feature at all; the same names in capitals returned the LOCALITY record for every one of them.
Done: The resolver now asks for both spellings and files the feature type it used. All hundred towns carry gazetteer coordinates; none of them has a level gauge and the pages say so.
2026-09-24 · Closed seasons · Our error · Corrected
Dee Lagoon and the South Esk had the wrong Tasmanian season, and five lakes were described with the wrong fishing methods.
Checked against: The Tasmanian Inland Fishing Code 2026-27 and 2025-26, water by water, while adding the hydro lakes of Phase 2 batch 4 on 24 September 2026
Found: Dee Lagoon is a designated rainbow trout water, open from 3 October 2026, but its page read open under the brown trout season. The South Esk below Avoca, which includes our Llewellyn and Perth reaches, is an extended-season water that closes on 30 May 2027, not 2 May. The pages for Dee, Bronte, Sorell, Crescent and Pedder mentioned bait, where the Code allows artificial lure and fly only, and Penstock Lagoon is fly only, not fly and lure.
Done: Two new rules, the designated rainbow waters and the extended-season waters, are computed from the Code and checked against both published years. The three pages now carry them, and the six descriptions state the method each water actually allows.
2026-09-24 · Water levels · Source was wrong or late · Published without the module
Eighteen of the hundred Phase 2 batch 4 waters have a Bureau gauge that no longer reports to Water Data Online.
Checked against: The level series of every station chosen for batch 4, read from Water Data Online on 24 September 2026 over the last thirty days
Found: Cooby Dam’s storage series had not updated since 7 September, and seventeen river and lake stations, from the Lachlan at Hillston to the Warren at Pemberton, returned nothing recent at all. Three Queensland storage stations also carry coordinates that place them in the Pacific Ocean.
Done: The eighteen waters are published without a level chart, and each page says why. The three dams take their coordinates from the Composite Gazetteer instead of the station record. Every other water in the batch reads a series verified by id, and the access to each storage was checked against the agency that manages it before the page was written.
2026-09-23 · Water levels · Could not verify · Published with the caveat
Lenthalls Dam publishes no storage level series; the page reads the headwater watercourse gauge.
Checked against: The Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online time-series list for station 137303A (Lenthalls Dam HW) while building the storage batch of Phase 2
Found: The station carries a Water Course Level series at the dam headwater and a Storage Volume series, but no Storage Level series; Callide Dam and Ross River Dam had the same gap at one station and a proper storage level series at the dam-wall station, which is the one now used.
Done: Lake Lenthall reads the headwater watercourse level and the storage volume, and says so on the page and in this log. Callide reads station 130314C and Ross River Dam station 532020A. Every other storage in the batch has its Storage Level series verified by time-series id.
2026-09-23 · Closed seasons · Could not verify · Published as rule
Season dates are calculated from each agency’s rule and checked against two published years before they appear.
Checked against: DPIRD NSW summary of freshwater closures and its 2024, 2025 and 2026 trout releases; the Victorian Fisheries Authority trout and Murray cod pages and its 2018 release; Queensland DPI tidal and freshwater closed seasons; the Inland Fisheries Service season dates for 2025-26 and 2026-27; PIRSA snapper management; DPIRD WA demersal reforms, all read on 23 September 2026
Found: Every trout closure in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania is written as a day of the week (the Tuesday after the June long weekend, the first Saturday of August, the Sunday nearest 30 April), so a copied date is right for one year only. South Australia’s snapper closure has a fixed end date, 30 June 2027, and Western Australia’s West Coast demersal closure has none: “spring 2027”.
Done: The rules live as rules and are computed for the year shown; the checker refuses a rule whose computed dates differ from the two years the agency published (13 rules, 19 dates). A species with no published closure shows nothing, because not published is not the same as open. Western Australia’s page shows “closed, no reopening date” rather than a guessed date.
2026-09-23 · Coordinates · Our error · Corrected
Twelve Phase 1b entities resolved to a parish, a survey marker or a locality instead of the water.
Checked against: The Composite Gazetteer of Australia while adding the 86 Phase 1b entities
Found: Name matching put Maroochy, Burrill, Shoalhaven and Tuross on parish records, Umina on a survey marker, and Burrinjuck, Wyangala, Googong, Copeton, St Georges Basin, Lake Conjola and Lake St Clair on the locality rather than the storage or the basin; the Glenelg River matched a point far inland from the estuary people fish.
Done: Each was re-resolved to the gazetteer’s WATERCOURSE, LAKE, RESERVOIR, LAGOON or BASIN feature, and the Glenelg to its estuary at Nelson; the feature used is recorded on every entity. Lake St Clair in New South Wales is the Glennies Creek storage and is not the Tasmanian lake of the same name.
2026-09-23 · Water levels · Could not verify · Published without the module
Three storages seemed to have no level series in Water Data Online; two were filed under the dam’s name.
Checked against: The Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online station and time-series lists for Lake Monduran, Lake Wendouree and Lake Mulwala
Found: Searching by the lake’s name found nothing for Lake Monduran, Lake Wendouree and Lake Mulwala. Searching the station list by the dam’s name found Lake Monduran as Fred Haigh Dam (135009A) and Lake Mulwala as Yarrawonga Weir (sp-o10814), both with a storage level series; Lake Wendouree has none.
Done: Monduran and Mulwala now read their level from those stations, verified by time-series id. Lake Wendouree says “no live gauge on this water” and shows no chart. Lesson recorded: search the Bureau’s list by the dam as well as the lake.
2026-09-23 · Tides · Could not verify · Excluded
Official Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions are not licensed for reuse here.
Checked against: The Bureau of Meteorology copyright notice, read while verifying sources for the Australian charter
Found: The Bureau’s general content may be used for personal use or within an organisation and “must not [be supplied] to any other person or use[d] for any commercial purpose”, and the notice bars automated extraction. The tide predictions are not covered by the Creative Commons licence that does cover Water Data Online.
Done: No Bureau tide prediction is used. Coastal pages show a modelled sea-level curve from Open-Meteo Marine, labelled as a model in every place it appears, with a link to the Bureau’s official prediction. A data licence agreement with the Bureau is the route to official times, and is planned as a later phase.
2026-09-23 · Fishing licences · Could not verify · Resolved
The Australian Capital Territory licence rule could not be read on the government’s own pages, then was.
Checked against: act.gov.au, environment.act.gov.au and parks.act.gov.au on 23 September 2026
Found: The first two answered with an anti-bot security check our reader could not pass; the third renders its text only inside a browser script. Third-party sites state a rule, but they are not the source that counts on this site.
Done: The page was read later the same day in an ordinary browser: no licence is needed in the ACT’s public waters and the Fisheries Act rules apply. The ACT licence page now states that rule with the read date, and the “not verified” model is gone from the site.
2026-09-23 · Coordinates · Our error · Corrected
Three entities resolved to the wrong gazetteer feature.
Checked against: The Composite Gazetteer of Australia, while building the Phase 1 inventory
Found: Matching by name alone put Noosa on a parish record inland, the Sunshine Coast on a tourist-region centroid off the coast, and Lake Eucumbene on the Eucumbene locality rather than the lake.
Done: Noosa now uses the Noosa Heads population centre, the Sunshine Coast uses Mooloolaba, and Lake Eucumbene uses the gazetteer’s LAKE feature. The inventory records which entities were resolved by hand.
2026-09-23 · Water levels · Source was wrong or late · Handled
Lake Eucumbene’s storage data reaches Water Data Online several days late.
Checked against: The Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online series for station 222538, on 23 September 2026
Found: The most recent value was timestamped 18 September, five days earlier, so a three-day query returned nothing and the page showed no level.
Done: The adapter now reads a fourteen-day window and the page prints the timestamp of the reading, so a late delivery is visible rather than hidden.
2026-09-23 · Editorial · Our error · Corrected
Twelve amounts in the editorial were written without the currency prefix, and licence boilerplate repeated across pages.
Checked against: The market checklist run over the first twenty waters and the eight licence pages
Found: Dollar amounts appeared as “$7” rather than “A$7”, against the site’s currency rule, and the same licence and coordinates sentences were repeated on up to eighteen pages.
Done: Every amount in prose now carries A$, and the repeated sentences were rewritten per page. The checker that found them runs before every build.