Identification

Title

WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 1

Alternative title(s)

WFD River Basin Districts 1st Cycle

WFD River Basin Districts

WFD_river_basin_districts_050k

Abstract

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). as '…the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters…'. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional waterbodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model. This dataset was previously known as WFD River Basin Districts. These data apply to Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 2. Please note that the Environment Agency no longer provide data for water bodies in Wales - this should now available from Natural Resources Wales. Attribution Statement: Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database rights 2017.Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013.Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/ds/catalogue/#/779ada21-d465-11e4-8a4f-f0def148f590

protocol: OGC:WMS

name:

description:

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-basin-districts/wfs

protocol: WFS

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1_WFS

description: WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 1 WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1_Download

description: WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 1 Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/wfd-river-basin-districts/wms

protocol: WMS

name: WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1_WMS

description: WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 1 WMS

Unique resource identifier

code

779ada21-d465-11e4-8a4f-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

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

river

RBD

water body

hydrology

river basin district

WFD

OpenData

EAbatch2

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-13

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

2015-12-31

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2008-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2009-10-13

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Dataset contains copyright material owned by CEH, Ordnance Survey. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional water bodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model.

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

2023-09-15

Metadata language