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Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions

Summary

These data provide details of all permit details as required under the Environmental Permit Regulation. Information is held for all permit holders and covers all substances that are controlled. These data are a taken from the Environment Agency’s Public Register and contains three tiers of data for all active permits.  Tier 1 – Site and General Information on the  consent holder that has a consent to discharge into controlled waters. Consent holder and the discharge address and type. nb The date of permit issue, effective and revocation. Information where the effluent enters the environment (such as sewage disposal works) for each holder that has been granted a permit. Data is also held on the effluent type e.g. Sewage effluent, Overflow. The location of the grid reference is supplied for the effluent and the outlet location in OS Nation Grid Reference format. Tier 2 – Effluent Further detail is provided on the amount that can be discharged and in which time period in months. This is stored as Dry Weather Flow, Maximum Daily, Mean, Maximum Rate. Further data about the permit type and treatment type from lookup lists are provided.  Tier 3 – Determinand Limits  Determinands are the substances and numerical limits that make up the effluent. This could include chemical, biological, and physical limits. Textual conditions are not included. The permitted limits are included for each determinand type. Data is provided for each effluent and may contain one or more determinands depending on the complexity of the discharge. IMPORTANT: Data links below provide access to: • a data extract taken quarterly (Consented Discharges to Controlled waters with conditions - quarterly extract) and • Discharges to Water and Groundwater Public Registers Online, where you can view the complete dataset - updated daily.

Use limitation statement

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

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.

Use constraints

This data is available under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence with the following reuse conditions. Special conditions:

  1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes <and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.>
  2. Notwithstanding the permission in condition 1 you must not publish the Information in any way {not needed if excluding external use}
  3. The period of permitted use is one year.
  4. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. In this instance it is because of personal data. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights.
  5. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.
Technical information

Update frequency

quarterly

Lineage

Data is received daily from EA Monitoring Systems

Spatial information

Geographic extent

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

Language

English

Metadata identifier

5fe5ab2e-d465-11e4-8a42-f0def148f590


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

29 January 2015

Revision date

01 April 2024

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 1900

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