Identification

Title

Real-time Flood Data River Levels

Abstract

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA104 Real-time Flood Data River Levels via our API. This dataset covers monitoring data that is only updated on our systems during a routine daily update cycle, some sites will update more frequently as we update the field technology used over the next few years till 2025. During times of flooding, or other water level related incidents our update frequency can be increased if the technology at site allows. Readings are transferred via telemetry to internal and external systems in or close to real-time. This data is transferred to other systems, including the API. Data for sites in Wales is included in the Open Data feed, but is owned by Natural Resources Wales (NRW). NRW also class the data as Open Data, and you may use it under the same terms as the England data (the standard Open Government Licence, available on The National Archives website). Measurements of the height (m) of water in a river lake or coastal site are taken using automatic field instruments and typically log the value every 15 minutes. Information is available for 1400 river gauging stations (where flow is also measured) and 1800 river level only monitoring sites throughout England as well as some reservoirs and coastal sites. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2021. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://environment.data.gov.uk/flood-monitoring/doc/reference

protocol: http

name:

description:

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

Unique resource identifier

code

6c28dc00-d465-11e4-8dfb-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

monitoring data

telemetry

flood

OpenData

water level

flow

originating controlled vocabulary

title

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

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/wales

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-01-01

Frequency of update

continual

Quality and validity

Lineage

River levels are measured using automatic field devices throughout England. These are relayed by telemetry and available through the FWFI Hub as a live feed

Conformity

Data format

name of format

OGC Web Services | JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

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.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-03

Metadata language