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Water bodies impacted by pollution from abandoned metal mines

Summary

List of water bodies (rivers) with significant failures of environmental quality standards for metals (cadmium, lead, nickel, copper, zinc and/or iron) caused by abandoned metal mines in England. These water bodies are divided into “impacted” and “probably impacted” depending on the significance of pollution; impacted water bodies are polluted all of the time, probably impacted means the pollution is not always significant at the water body scale. Each water body has been allocated a score based on the magnitude of the metal EQS failure, and impacts on ecology and groundwater. The system for scoring impacts is adapted from the methodology described in "Prioritisation of abandoned non-coal mine impacts on the environment: A methodology for identification and prioritisation of abandoned non-coal mines in England and Wales" published by the Environment Agency in 2012 (available from gov.uk).

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Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

asNeeded

Lineage

No lineage recorded

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

4d5ff6ab-1491-4bec-9142-8dd73d34415b


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

23 June 2016

Revision date

02 December 2019

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