Identification

Title

WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using the Environment Agency - General Quality Assessment (GQA) River Stretches dataset which was copied directly from the CEH 1:50K River Network with some additional stretches added in by the Environment Agency. The resultant WFD river water body dataset is a sub-set of the CEH network, including only stretches that meet any of the criteria for the WFD. This dataset was previously known as WFD River Waterbodies Water bodies are attributed with a unique identifier ‘EA_WB_ID' (equivalent to WB_ID in Cycle 2) so this dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as river water body catchment, physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives as well as Cycle 2 datasets. NB Not all catchments have a designated WFD river water body within them. This dataset covers the layer for Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive and does not include artificial water bodies; these are available as WFD ARTIFICIAL WATER BODIES: CANALS AND SURFACE WATER TRANSFER CHANNELS CYCLE 1. However, the equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD River, Canal and Surface Water Transfer Water bodies Cycle 2 (ie both artificial and natural water bodies) Please note that the Environment Agency no longer provide data for water bodies in Wales - this should now available from Natural Resources Wales. Attribution statement: Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency 2017. All rights reserved. Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-FGDB.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-FGDB.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GeoJSON.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GeoJSON.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GML.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GML.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-KML.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-KML.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-MID_MIF.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-MID_MIF.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-SHP.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-SHP.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a747f274-d716-4d78-a0af-ea6f9ba94dcf&fileName=WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-TAB.zip

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-TAB.zip

description: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/ds/catalogue/#/77e306b0-d465-11e4-9182-f0def148f590

protocol: http

name:

description:

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-waterbodies/wfs

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1_WFS

description: WFD - River Water bodies Cycle 1 WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/77e306b0-d465-11e4-9182-f0def148f590?download=true

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1_Download

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-waterbodies/wms

protocol: http

name: WFDRiverWaterBodiesCycle1_WMS

description: WFD - River Water bodies Cycle 1 WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-waterbodies/ogc/features/v1

protocol: http

name: OGC API - Features service

description: OGC API - Features service

Unique resource identifier

code

77e306b0-d465-11e4-9182-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

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

WFD

environment

inlandWaters

Keyword set

keyword value

water quality

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

water body

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

river

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

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

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2008-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2012-04-03

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

The river polylines were defined by using the Environment Agency - General Quality Assessment (GQA) River Stretches dataset this was copied directly from the CEH 1:50K River Network with some additional stretches added in by the Environment Agency. Additional stretches were added to cover all stretches designated under the Fresh Water Fish Directive, all stretches designated within riverine SSSIs, and ensuring that all riverine abstractions which contributed to the designation of a Drinking Water Protected Area were sited on a designated river water body. In addition to this, some stretches were added where the upstream catchment size was > 10km2, but no other river stretch was designated (10km2 was the original cut-off catchment size form defining a water body under the WFD).

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. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

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://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

2024-05-31

Metadata language

eng