Map of soil leaching potential (partial cover)

Published by:
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
24 March 2022
Topic:
Not added
Licence:
Other Licence
View licence information

Summary

The map shows the risk of potential pollutants and nutrients leaching through the soil to ground and surface waters. This map primarily covers the cultivated land in Scotland. The soil leaching potential gives information on the likelihood of a potential pollutant that is applied to the soil surface infiltrating the soil and leaching to a water course or ground water in three main categories (High, Intermediate and Low) with the High class being subdivided into 3 classes while the intermediate class is subdivided into 2 classes. Note: soils over current and restored mineral workings and in urban areas that are often disturbed or absent are assumed to have little ability to retain potential pollutants and so are classified as having a high leaching potential (see Lewis, M.A., Lilly, A and J.S. Bell. 2000. Groundwater vulnerability mapping in Scotland: Modifications to classification used in England and Wales. In: Groundwater in the Celtic Regions: Studies in Hard Rock and Quaternary Hydrogeology. Eds. N.S. Robins and B.D.R. Misstear Geological Society Special Publication No. 182. pp 71-79.).

More from this publisher

All datasets from Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot

Related datasets

Search

Data links

Link to the data Format File added Data preview
Resource locator N/A 24 March 2022 Not available

Additional information

View additional metadata
Added to data.gov.uk
2022-03-23
Access contraints
No limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
8eb71a80-044d-467d-a44a-879bbf6d2321
Extent
Latitude: 58.70° to 54.60°
Longitude: -5.20° to -1.70°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700
Dataset reference date
2018-04-19 (publication)
2018-04-19 (creation)
2018-04-19 (revision)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
The James Hutton Institute (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
HTML

Contact

Enquiries

Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot

Licence information

Copyright