R values are classified from 1 to 10. Groundwater recharge (GSI National Groundwater Recharge Map) varies between 55 mm/a and 681 mm/a across the Rockingham catchment. Areas underlain by clay have the lowest groundwater recharge and lowest R values. The highest groundwater recharge occurs in areas where rock is at near the surface or around karst features.
The GSI National Groundwater Recharge Map was reclassified as per DRASTIC methodology. It was created using ERSI ArcMap 10.5 and QGIS as a shapefile and converted into .tiff format