Identification

Title

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)

Abstract

Drinking Water Groundwater Safeguard Zones (SgZs) are established around public water supplies where additional pollution control measures are needed. The Water Framework Directive requires that Drinking Water Protected Areas are identified (WFD Article 7.1) and that they are given the necessary protection (WFD Article 7.3) with the aim of avoiding deterioration in their quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required in the production of drinking water. The geometry of Groundwater Safeguard Zones are based on Groundwater Source Protection Zones (SPZs)*, usually the SPZ 2, and use additional assessment to identify areas, which may or may not coincide with the SPZ, where additional measures are required to ensure that abstraction waters meet Article 7.3 of the WFD. SgZs can be large or small depending on the pollution problem and may not cover the whole of a catchment or sub-catchment. *AfA029 Source Protection Zones [Merged] is available. Attribution statement: Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database rights. Derived from BGS digital data under licence from British Geological Survey copyright NERC.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/datafiles/44c4f0e9e3394c1d8d4f1b066077483e

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

name: Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_(Groundwater)_Spatial_Data_Download

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater) - Spatial Data Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/datafiles/db37b5d49f4c44f5ae1b2a1544ca5d65

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

name: Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_(Groundwater)_Action_Plan_Links_Download

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater) - Action Plan Links Download

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/360005708498-Check-for-Drinking-Water-Safeguard-Zones-SgZ-and-Nitrate-Vulnerable-Zones-NVZ-

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: Visit Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum for more information about this dataset

Unique resource identifier

code

6288b7b0-d465-11e4-b13c-f0def148f590

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

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

groundwater

Safeguard zone

drinking water

NotOpen

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts version 3.1

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2012-07-20

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

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2018-07-25

End position

2018-10-25

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-06-08

date type

revision

effective date

2019-12-02

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater) are created using: Source Protected Zones (Environment Agency) Water Framework Directive Groundwater Water bodies (Environment Agency) Land Cover Map 2000 (Centre of Ecology and Hydrology) Digi-50k Bedrock (British Geological Society) Rural Land Register (Rural Payments Agency) OS 1:250 000 scale raster (Ordnance Survey)

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

<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence"> Environment Agency Conditional Licence </a>

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Special Conditions: 1. This Information may only be used by you either in pursuance of this condition or in pursuance of condition 2 below. This condition applies if your use is:  for the purposes of contract you have to do work for us and if you do not have a contract to do work for us no use is permitted under this condition 1, and  for your internal use only but this does not prevent you from passing it back to us or to a subcontractor who complies with these conditions and  if, subject to any express written provision in the contract, you ensure that all intellectual property rights created in the performance of the contract vest in us, and  you destroy all copies of the Information at the end of the contract subject only to any retentions necessarily required by statute or otherwise by a binding legal obligation or for archive purposes for the sole purpose of addressing a complaint or challenge from a regulator or the National Audit Office in relation to your use of the Information. 2. If you are not using the Information in pursuance of condition 1 you must only use the Information in a way that • we have confirmed in writing to you supports our statutory functions, or • that is authorised by any statute, or • does not require a licence from us. 3 if you make a supply of the Information to a third party it must be only to your contractor or partner for the same purpose as our supply to you and you must make no charge that exceeds marginal costs of supply unless it is a statutory charge. 4. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. In this instance it is because of prior rights owned by the British Geological Survey. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights

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

2021-05-28

Metadata language

eng