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WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1

Summary

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA088. WFD Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD defines coastal water bodies as ‘…a surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters’. The delineation between coastal and transitional (estuarine) waters was determined by the Environment Agency defined transitional water bodies (see also the Lineage Statement in the Data Quality Info paragraph below). Water bodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts. Water bodies are attributed with a unique identifier ‘EA_WB_ID' (equivalent to WB_ID in Cycle 2) so this dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives as well as Cycle 2 datasets. This dataset was previously known as WFD Coastal Waterbodies This dataset covers the layer for Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD Transitional and Coastal water bodies Cycle 2. Please note that the Environment Agency no longer provide data for water bodies in Wales - this should now available from Natural Resources Wales.

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 2017. All rights reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013.

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

Coastal waters were defined by territorial waters 1 nautical mile from the Mean High Water coastline taken directly from OS 1:50K. The delineation between coastal and estuarine waters was delineated by the Environment Agency defined transitional water bodies. Water bodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

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

Language

English

Metadata identifier

7593715e-d465-11e4-8aac-f0def148f590


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 2008

Revision date

03 April 2012

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • N/A

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WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-FGDB.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-GeoJSON.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-GML.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-KML.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-MID_MIF.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-SHP.zipZIPDownload
WFDCoastalWaterBodiesCycle1-TAB.zipZIPDownload