EWCO - Water Quality

• Published by: Forestry Commission
• Last updated: 12 June 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

Spatial data supporting appropriately located and designed woodland creation to help reduce pollutants through land use change that reduces fertilizer application or by creating woodland that intercepts pollution and sediment before it reaches watercourses.

The layer shows where woodland creation can decrease diffuse pollution through reduced fertiliser and pesticide usage. It can also protect sensitive soils from; disturbance and erosion, increase infiltration and reduce water runoff, intercept sediment and chemical pollutants in run-off and reduce the delivery of pollutants to watercourses.

Woodland will be located within groundwater and surface water Protection Zones, on soils at high risk of erosion or leaching chemical pollutants, where temporary surface water collects and flows during heavy rain, on areas receiving runoff from hard standings, on infiltration basins and on sustainable rural and urban drainage systems and downslope of erosion or chemical pollutant sources.

Data input sources: 2014 Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (Environment Agency).

Attributes: ‘Cat’ – the targeting category. ‘AreaHa’ – Area of the feature in hectares. Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-06-12
• Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: 8a2405ba-6d31-402f-bd27-31089eadcc25
• Extent: Latitude: 56.095641° to 49.842773°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.474652° to 2.430458°
• Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
• Dataset reference date: 2023-01-13 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2023-01-13 (revision)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Forestry Commission (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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