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Catchment Data Search
The Catchment Data Explorer helps you explore and download information about the water environment. It supports and builds upon the data in the river basin management plans here.
You can find catchments and water bodies of interest using a map or searching by name. You can also view summary information about catchments, and follow links to other useful sites.
Place name: searches for River Basin Districts, catchments and water bodies within a 10 mile radius, by town and local authority ward.
Postcode: searches for River Basin Districts, catchments and water bodies within a 10 mile radius.
Coordinates: searches for River Basin Districts, catchments and water bodies within a 10 mile radius using latitudes and longitude or eastings and northings.
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Ecological and chemical classification for surface waters |
Ecological status or potential
Chemical status
Number of water bodies
Chemical and quantitative classification for groundwater |
Quantitative status
Chemical status
Number of water bodies
Summary of objectives (ecological status or potential and chemical status) for surface water bodies (number of water bodies)
Summary of quantitative and chemical status objectives for groundwater (number of water bodies) including those with less stringent objectives and extended deadlines (blue shaded cells)
Reasons for not achieving good status and reasons for deterioration in this
The table below shows the number of reasons for not achieving good status (RNAGS) and reasons for deterioration (RFD), split by sector.
Issues preventing waters reaching good status
Issues preventing waters reaching good status and the sectors identified as contributing to them are shown in a table in the new summary page.
This table shows the number of confident measures in the catchment.
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