Identification

Title

Historical Bathing Water Quality at Designated Beaches 1988 - 2014

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

This dataset is an archive of data relevant to the old Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC) and won't be updated now the directive is no longer in force. For the latest bathing water quality information please see environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/. Every week during the bathing season (15 May to 30 September 1988-2014), the Environment Agency took samples from over 400 coastal and inland designated bathing waters. These samples were analysed against the standards laid out in the 1976 European Bathing Water Directive and published online. This data consists of: bathing water sites, site samples and site sample and annual site compliance from 1988-2014. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=06d59bed-4659-4031-a96c-23699eeef8c2&fileName=Historical_Bathing_Water_Quality_at_Designated_Beaches_1988_-_2014.xlsx

protocol: http

name: Historical_Bathing_Water_Quality_at_Designated_Beaches_1988_-_2014.xlsx

description: Historical_Bathing_Water_Quality_at_Designated_Beaches_1988_-_2014.xlsx download on Defra Data Services Platform

Unique resource identifier

code

DSTR08223

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

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

environment

oceans

Keyword set

keyword value

bathing water

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

monitoring data

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

monitoring technique

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1988-01-01

End position

2014-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1998-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2014-11-25

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Bathing waters are monitored every week throughout the Bathing Season (15 May to 30 September). Samples are loaded into STARLIMS and analysed by the National Laboratory Service and loaded into MIDAS and stored in Water Information Management System (WIMS). Microbiological sample and monitoring data are extracted from the Water Information Management System (WIMS) into the UK Master Compliance Database to assess against standards laid out in the European Bathing Water Directive

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Proprietary format | ESRI, Intergraph, MS Access (MDB)

version of format

Not Known

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.

Constraint set

Use constraints

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://environment.data.gov.uk/support

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-11-27

Metadata language