Identification

Title

Bathing Water

Abstract

The Environment Agency collects water quality data each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other activities. This data is provided through an Application Programming Interface (API) as a data service and is reusable and accessible to developers and to members of the public. It is published as linked data but also available in other forms including CSV and JSON. See API and data model documentation for detail plus access to data dumps and data slices. The data service entry point is http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/index.html. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/

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

name:

description: Data Service Entry Point

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

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/widget/design

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

name:

description: Widget Designer

http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/sparql.html

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

name:

description: SPARQL Endpoint

http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles

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

name:

description: Data Explorer

Unique resource identifier

code

7f47d32f-1237-4bd1-aa24-f3f592a8050f

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

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

catchment

surface water

bathing water

water quality

water quality

recreation

protected area

protected area

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

1988-04-14

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-04-01

date type

revision

effective date

2015-11-05

Frequency of update

weekly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data in this dataset comes from a variety of Environment Agency systems, including our water quality archive, bathing water compliance tools, bathing water profiles database, the bathing water quality forecasting system and various stand alone spatial datasets.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

OGC Web Services | JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

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

2020-03-19

Metadata language