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UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme Detailed Data

Publisher
Natural Resources Wales
Updated
17 September 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

The Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme (HMS) dataset contains individual determinand results for all sites in the UK Harmonised Monitoring Scheme network from 1974 until 2013. The Harmonised Monitoring Scheme (HMS) was established to provide an archive of water quality data for the UK. It is used to provide information for international obligations, including the long-term trends of some determinands and the estimation of riverborne input of selected determinands to the sea.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
17 September 2026
Harvest GUID
NRW_DS116338
Extent (Latitude)
61.13709061° to 48.7264586°
Extent (Longitude)
-10.06776295° to 4.90256433°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-06-22
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
This data is jointly owned by NRW, EA, SEPA and AFBI There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Responsible party
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, custodian, distributor); Environment Agency Wales (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng