WFD Cycle 2 chemical water body classification
Chemical status is assessed from compliance with environmental standards for chemicals that are defined as priority substances and/or priority hazardous substances. Chemical status is recorded as ‘good’ or ‘fail’. Chemical status for a water body is determined by the worst scoring chemical (one-out-all-out approach). Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.
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environment
environment
EC directive
publication
2010-01-13
water quality
publication
2010-01-13
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
2015-12-02
2099-12-31
creation
2015-12-09
annually
The Water Framework Directive classification system is risk based and focuses on where there is likely to be a problem. It uses a principle known as "one out, all out", which means the poorest individual results drive the overall classification for a water body. It reports on over 30 quality elements, grouped into ecological status and chemical status. Ecological status includes physico-chem (e.g. nutrients, pH, dissolved oxygen, ammonia) , biological elements (e.g. phytoplankton, macroalgae, fish, invertebrates) , specific pollutants (e.g. metals and compounds, organic compounds) , hydromorphology (e.g. depth, width, flow, structure). Chemical status is assessed using priority substances, priority hazardous substances and other pollutants that present a significant risk to the water environment.
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