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Historical Bathing Water Quality at Designated Beaches 1988 - 2014

Summary

This dataset is an archive of data relevant to the old Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC) and won't be updated now the directive is no longer in force. For the latest bathing water quality information please see environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/. Every week during the bathing season (15 May to 30 September 1988-2014), the Environment Agency took samples from over 400 coastal and inland designated bathing waters. These samples were analysed against the standards laid out in the 1976 European Bathing Water Directive and published online. This data consists of: bathing water sites, site samples and site sample and annual site compliance from 1988-2014.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Open Government Licence

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

Bathing waters are monitored every week throughout the Bathing Season (15 May to 30 September). Samples are loaded into STARLIMS and analysed by the National Laboratory Service and loaded into MIDAS and stored in Water Information Management System (WIMS). Microbiological sample and monitoring data are extracted from the Water Information Management System (WIMS) into the UK Master Compliance Database to assess against standards laid out in the European Bathing Water Directive

Spatial information

Coordinate reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Geographic extent

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

Language

English

Metadata identifier

5d418d40-d465-11e4-ae62-f0def148f590

Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 1998

Revision date

25 November 2014

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 1988
  • To: 31 December 2014

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