Identification

Title

Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas

Alternative title(s)

Environment Agency Water Management Areas

AREAWM_010K

areawm_010k

Abstract

Water management boundaries are delineated to river catchments. The Environment Agency uses these areas for their flood, water management and water quality operational purposes. The areas are attributed with the long and short name of the area, the area code, the name and address of the area main office. The data also includes look ups for the previous Water Management region and area names, and the current Environment Agency Public Facing area names and codes, for each area. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/AdminBoundWaterManagementAreas&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: AdminBoundWaterManagementAreas_Download

description: Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/administrative-boundaries-water-management-areas/wms

protocol: WMS

name: AdminBoundWaterManagementAreas_WMS

description: Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/administrative-boundaries-water-management-areas/wfs

protocol: WFS

name: AdminBoundWaterManagementAreas_WFS

description: Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/AdminBoundWaterManagementAreas/MapServer

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Administrative_Boundaries_Water_Management_Areas_ESRI_REST_Endpoint

description: Administrative Boundaries - Water Management Areas - ESRI REST Endpoint

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum

Unique resource identifier

code

DSTR08122

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

environment

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Administrative boundary

border

OpenData

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-01-01T00:00:00

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2007-04-01

date type

revision

effective date

2019-10-15

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Environment Agency Water Management Boundaries are based on amalgamations of river sub-catchments derived from a Digital Elevation Model (NextMap DEM) and a set of 1:10 000 scale river centrelines improved using local knowledge. The national outline is delineated to the Mean High Water Mark (OS Boundary-Line). The boundaries have been generated using hydrological modelling techniques using the data listed above as input datasets to define many small sub-catchments. Each of these sub-catchments has been combined with many others to create larger catchments. The pure river catchments have however been modified in a number of places for improved accuracy of the watershed delineation and more importantly for operational needs. Then the polygons of the areas for each area are merged to create the area boundaries.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Not Applicable

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-11-10

Metadata language