Identification

Title

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water)

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are catchment areas that influence the water quality for their respective Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water). They are identified where the protected area has been assigned as being "at risk" of failing the drinking water protection objectives of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017. Safeguard Zones are one of the main tools for delivering the drinking water protection objectives. These Safeguard Zones are a non-statutory, joint initiative between the Environment Agency and water companies that define areas where actions and measures will be targeted to address water contamination and avoid or minimise extra treatment needed by water companies. Impacts, sources, actions and measures proposed for each Safeguard Zone are provided in accompanying Action Plans which are periodically reviewed and updated. This dataset provides a national shapefile of all Safeguard Zone areas and identifies which substances are causing the drinking water protected area to be ‘at risk’. The links to the Safeguard Zone Action Plans are embedded in the shapefile attributes and provided in an accompanying csv download. The Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water) dataset is also available elsewhere on the DSP site. This data was updated in 2022 following a national review of surface water protected area records for the Cycle 3 River basin Management Plans. Please note the status of these Safeguard Zones are continuously under review and details may change or become out of date once published. Please send any data or other enquiries in relation to this dataset to the point of contact identified below. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-FGDB.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-FGDB.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GeoJSON.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GeoJSON.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GML.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GML.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-KML.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-KML.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-MID_MIF.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-MID_MIF.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-SHP.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-SHP.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-TAB.zip

protocol: http

name: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-TAB.zip

description: DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=DrWSgZ_SW_AttributeDescriptions.csv

protocol: http

name: DrWSgZ_SW_AttributeDescriptions.csv

description: DrWSgZ_SW_AttributeDescriptions.csv download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/1e0002f8-a322-4158-8165-3d688d634a3c?download=true

protocol: http

name: Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_(Surface_Water)_download

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/drinking-water-safeguards-surface-water/wms

protocol: http

name: Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_(Surface_Water)_download_-_WMS

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) - WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/drinking-water-safeguards-surface-water/wfs

protocol: http

name: Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_(Surface_Water)_-_WFS

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) - WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/farmers/

protocol: http

name: View Drinking Water Safeguard Zones Map and Action Plans

description: View Drinking Water Safeguard Zones Map and Action Plans

Unique resource identifier

code

0c4d9ae7-bdc2-48da-bfb2-ccd1134723b3

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

Blue Green Alga

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

surface water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

interaction of pesticides

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water pollution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

drinking water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water pollution prevention

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

persistence of pesticides

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water quality

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

drinking water treatment

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

agricultural pollution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water purification

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

agriculture

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

urban water supply

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

drinking water supply

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

colour

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

nutrient

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

pesticide

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water protection legislation

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

residual pesticide

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

surface water management

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

drinking water protection area

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

environmental impact of agriculture

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2012-04-01

End position

2022-03-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-07-09

date type

revision

effective date

2022-11-23

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are identified using the Cycle 3 River Basin Management Plan water body areas that are upstream or contribute to the relevant Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water) that has been defined as being "At Risk" from contaminants.

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.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-05-15

Metadata language