Identification

Title

Pollution Incidents Summary

Abstract

This record is for Approval for Access products AfA352, AfA353, AfA354, AfA355, AfA356, AfA357 and AfA358. AfA352 Pollution Incidents Summary by Region year AfA353 Pollution Incidents Summary by Source year AfA354 Pollution Incidents Summary by Pollutant year AfA355 Pollution Incidents Summary by Cause year AfA356 Pollution Incidents Summary by EA Impact year AfA357 Pollution Incidents Summary by Industry year AfA358 Category 1 and 2 Pollution Incident Summaries by Industry Pollution Incident Summaries:Summary statistics of incidents reported to the Environment Agency for a particular year. It does not include incidents relating to: - Fisheries incidents - for incidents involving illegal fishing and illegal fish movements fish disease fishery management activities and fish kills from non-pollution causes including low flows and low dissolved oxygen. - Water Resources incidents - for incidents involving the quantity of a water resource. - Waterways incidents - for incidents on a waterway where we are the competent authority for navigation. - Flood and Coastal Risk Management incidents - for incidents which involve actual or potential flooding and land drainage works on main river or where regional bylaws apply. Incidents are included in the year in which the incident occurred (rather than when it was closed). Only incidents where our investigations and response have been completed are included in summary reporting. Some incidents may take an extended period of months or exceptionally years to be completed. The dataset only includes substantiated incidents and their environmental impact. Substantiated incidents. These are where we have confirmation that the incident took place either by a visit from us or a partner organisation or it is corroborated by other information. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://ea.sharefile.com/d-se6704e19a1547c3a

protocol: http

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

Unique resource identifier

code

8b6adfa1-d465-11e4-9d3f-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

farming

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

biota

economy

environment

health

inlandWaters

oceans

utilitiesCommunication

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

pollution

incidental pollution

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

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

2013

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2001-03-05

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Extract from National Incident Recording System (NIRS) summarised by region and by year.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Proprietary format | MS Excel (XLS)

version of format

Unknown

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

data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency

description: Environment Agency Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-12-17

Metadata language