PLEASE NOTE: This record has been retired. Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) Reference boundaries is no longer updated. The last update of the dataset was 10/2017. Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) Reference boundaries has been retired due to containing boundaries that lie completely in Wales and are not managed by the Environment Agency, please refer instead to Abstraction Licensing Strategy boundaries Cycle 2 for the same data for England and catchments that cross over into Wales, often referred to as cross border catchments.
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA182. The CAMS Abstraction Management Strategy Reference Boundaries are an external reference dataset giving an indication of where technical assessments have been undertaken.
CAMS helps to look at the balance between society, the economy and the environment. The technical assessment helps identify where water may be available for future use but also where water resource demands may be impacting the water balance. The CAMS boundaries should be used on a national (England and Wales) scale to show the geographical distribution of CAMS and are not suitable for detailed technical assessments.
INFORMATION WARNING
These boundaries should not be used for detailed technical assessment or identifying precisely which CAMS permits may fall into. The boundaries may be subject to change based on the Environment Agency's technical and catchment understanding. These are not the boundaries used to make internal assessments due to third party prior rights (see AfA009 Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) Technical Assessment Boundaries). Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.
