Identification

Title

Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions

Alternative title(s)

Water Discharge Activity / Groundwater Activity Permits with Conditions

Abstract

These data provide details of all permit details as required under the Environmental Permit Regulation. Information is held for all permit holders and covers all substances that are controlled. These data are a taken from the Environment Agency’s Public Register and contains three tiers of data for all active permits.  Tier 1 – Site and General Information on the  consent holder that has a consent to discharge into controlled waters. Consent holder and the discharge address and type. nb The date of permit issue, effective and revocation. Information where the effluent enters the environment (such as sewage disposal works) for each holder that has been granted a permit. Data is also held on the effluent type e.g. Sewage effluent, Overflow. The location of the grid reference is supplied for the effluent and the outlet location in OS Nation Grid Reference format. Tier 2 – Effluent Further detail is provided on the amount that can be discharged and in which time period in months. This is stored as Dry Weather Flow, Maximum Daily, Mean, Maximum Rate. Further data about the permit type and treatment type from lookup lists are provided.  Tier 3 – Determinand Limits  Determinands are the substances and numerical limits that make up the effluent. This could include chemical, biological, and physical limits. Textual conditions are not included. The permitted limits are included for each determinand type. Data is provided for each effluent and may contain one or more determinands depending on the complexity of the discharge. IMPORTANT: Data links below provide access to: • a data extract taken quarterly (Consented Discharges to Controlled waters with conditions - quarterly extract) and • Discharges to Water and Groundwater Public Registers Online, where you can view the complete dataset - updated daily. Attribution Statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/datafiles/5e618f2b5c7f47cca44eb468aa2e43f0

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

name:

description: Consented Discharges to Controlled waters with conditions - quarterly extract

https://environment.data.gov.uk/public-register/view/search-water-discharge-consents

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

name: Discharges to water and groundwater Public Register Online

description: Discharges to water and groundwater Public Register Online

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

5fe5ab2e-d465-11e4-8a42-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

NotOpen

Keyword set

keyword value

sewage

water quality

overflow (outlet)

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://

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015-01-29

End position

2022-07-01

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2015-01-29

date type

revision

effective date

2022-10-01

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data is received daily from EA Monitoring Systems

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Proprietary format | Access 2007 onwards database (ACCDB)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence"> Environment Agency Conditional Licence </a>

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

This data is available under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence with the following reuse conditions. Special conditions: 1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes <and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.> 2. Notwithstanding the permission in condition 1 you must not publish the Information in any way {not needed if excluding external use} 3. The period of permitted use is one year. 4. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. In this instance it is because of personal data. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights. 5. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.

Constraint set

Use constraints

This data is available under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence with the following reuse conditions. Special conditions: 1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes <and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.> 2. Notwithstanding the permission in condition 1 you must not publish the Information in any way {not needed if excluding external use} 3. The period of permitted use is one year. 4. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. In this instance it is because of personal data. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights. 5. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

This data is available under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence with the following reuse conditions. Special conditions: 1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes <and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.> 2. Notwithstanding the permission in condition 1 you must not publish the Information in any way {not needed if excluding external use} 3. The period of permitted use is one year. 4. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. In this instance it is because of personal data. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights. 5. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.

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

2022-10-12

Metadata language

eng