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Diffuse agricultural pollution to rivers in Scotland

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

Modelled predictions of annual pollutant loads in rivers from agricultural source areas for Scotland, reported at Water Framework Directive (WFD) catchment scale. The modelled pollutants include total phosphorous, nitrate (NO3-N), faecal indicator organisms (FIOs), suspended solids, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) gas emissions. The agricultural source areas include arable land, improved grassland, rough grazing land and others (e.g. steadings, tracks and other non-field losses). Modelled predictions account for current (c. 2012) implementation of General Binding Rules, Nitrate Vulnerable Zone Action Programme and a number of SRDP options. The values specify pollutant losses in 10^6 colony forming units (cfu) per year for FIOs and kilograms per year for the other pollutants. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d4d5a10e-1612-4bb5-97b2-2b850cccdcb2

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
d4d5a10e-1612-4bb5-97b2-2b850cccdcb2
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 54.634°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to -0.728°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2017-02-16
Dataset reference date (creation)
2012-12-31
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gooday, R., Anthony, S., Calrow, L., Harris, D., Skirvin, D. (2017). Diffuse agricultural pollution to rivers in Scotland . NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d4d5a10e-1612-4bb5-97b2-2b850cccdcb2
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng