Identification

Title

Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations

Alternative title(s)

Bathing water sample points

Abstract

The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other activities. This shape file shows the approximate locations of our monitoring sites and the compliance or classification for each bathing water in England from 1988 to present. It is updated twice a year, to revise the inventory, and the assessment results. For coastal waters the specific locations of monitoring vary along a transect with the changing of the tides. The results of these samples are assessed in annual classifications and are available to view and download through the bathing water data explorer. This data is covered by AfA470. Attribution Statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/BathingWatersMonitoringLocations&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

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

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

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_ESRI_REST_Endpoint

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations - ESRI REST Endpoint

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

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

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: DEFRA Data Services Platform Customer Forum

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/bathing-waters-monitoring-locations/wms

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_WMS

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/bathing-waters-monitoring-locations/wfs

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_WFS

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/BathingWatersMonitoringLocations/FeatureServer

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

name: Bathing_Waters_Monitoring_Locations_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint

description: Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

Unique resource identifier

code

e0c64fdb-2502-4efd-b98b-243f70d8e53e

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

Keyword set

keyword value

water quality

bathing freshwater

tidal water

water pollution

beach

surface water

water monitoring

brackish water

protected area

recreation

bathing seawater

bathing water

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1988-01-01

End position

2022-12-01

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2022-12-01

date type

creation

effective date

2010-10-01

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and other activities. The results of these samples are assessed in annual classifications. Bathing water locations, and samples & measurements are archived on the Environment Agency’s water quality archive WIMS. The compliance and classification results are held in bwdata.mdb which is managed by Statutory Assessment & Reporting in RAE. All the data is also available as linked open data via the linked data store or bathing water data explorer. The assessments used in the compliance from 1988 to 2014 were based on the standards as set in the directive 76/160/EEC. From 2015 onwards the assessments are based on the standards set in the directive 2006/7/EC. This shape file shows the approximate locations of our monitoring sites and the compliance or classification for each bathing water in England from 1988 to present. It is updated twice a year, to revise the inventory, and the assessment results. For coastal waters the specific locations of monitoring vary along a transect line with the changing of the tides.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

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

2022-12-02

Metadata language