Area management - dredge spoil deposit sites (open, closed, and disused)

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 19 June 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

Locations of licensed dredge spoil deposit sites in Scotland, indicated by polygons. The spoil is usually as a result of navigational dredging (deepening of navigation channels) on the approaches to ports and harbours.

These sites are designated as open (in use), disused (not used for at least 5 years) or closed (not used for at least 10 years or specifically closed).

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Download sites as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
Resource locator	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
Resource locator	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
View closed or disused sites on Marine Scotland Maps	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
View open sites on Marine Scotland Maps	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-02-15
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1567
• Extent: Latitude: 60.96097° to 54.5331°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.837017° to -0.5226393°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2022-12-05 (revision)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor, originator); Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture (CEFAS) (originator); UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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