Identification

Title

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water)

Alternative title(s)

Surface Water Drinking Water Safeguard Zones

DRWPA (Drinking Water Protected Area)

DRWPA_safeguard_zones_surfacewater

Abstract

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are catchment areas that influence the water quality for their respective Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water). They are identified where the protected area has been assigned as being "at risk" of failing the drinking water protection objectives of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017. Safeguard Zones are one of the main tools for delivering the drinking water protection objectives. These Safeguard Zones are a non-statutory, joint initiative between the Environment Agency and water companies that define areas where actions and measures will be targeted to address water contamination and avoid or minimise extra treatment needed by water companies. Impacts, sources, actions and measures proposed for each Safeguard Zone are provided in accompanying Action Plans which are periodically reviewed and updated. This dataset provides a national shapefile of all Safeguard Zone areas and identifies which substances are causing the drinking water protected area to be ‘at risk’. The links to the Safeguard Zone Action Plans are embedded in the shapefile attributes and provided in an accompanying csv download. The Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water) dataset is also available elsewhere on the DSP site. This data was updated in 2022 following a national review of surface water protected area records for the Cycle 3 River basin Management Plans. Please note the status of these Safeguard Zones are continuously under review and details may change or become out of date once published. Please send any data or other enquiries in relation to this dataset to the point of contact identified below. Attribution Statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater&mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/drinking-water-safeguards-surface-water/wms

protocol: OGC:WMS

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) - WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/drinking-water-safeguards-surface-water/wfs

protocol: OGC:WFS

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) - WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/DrinkingWaterSafeguardsSurfacewater/MapServer

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) - ESRI REST Endpoint

https://environment.data.gov.uk/datafiles/aecbdc76b04743faa7522d88b5dd1fd0

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: Surface Water Safeguard Zone Action Plan links - CSV for download

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

protocol: http:

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

Unique resource identifier

code

0c4d9ae7-bdc2-48da-bfb2-ccd1134723b3

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

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Blue Green Alga

Keyword set

keyword value

persistence of pesticides

water pollution prevention

water purification

surface water

interaction of pesticides

water pollution

drinking water treatment

drinking water

urban water supply

agricultural pollution

drinking water supply

agriculture

water quality

pesticide

nutrient

colour

water protection legislation

residual pesticide

surface water management

environmental impact of agriculture

drinking water protection area

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

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

2012-04-01

End position

2022-03-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-07-09

date type

revision

effective date

2022-11-23

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are identified using the Cycle 3 River Basin Management Plan water body areas that are upstream or contribute to the relevant Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water) that has been defined as being "At Risk" from contaminants.

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.

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

2023-03-16

Metadata language

eng