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WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 1

Summary

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). as '…the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters…'. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional waterbodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model. This dataset was previously known as WFD River Basin Districts. These data apply to Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD River Basin Districts 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

Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database rights 2017.Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013.Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH).

Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

Dataset contains copyright material owned by CEH, Ordnance Survey. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional water bodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

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

Language

English

Metadata identifier

779ada21-d465-11e4-8a4f-f0def148f590


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 2008

Revision date

13 October 2009

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 31 December 2015

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Download data by area of interestN/AOpen link
http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/ds/catalogue/#/779ada21-d465-11e4-8a4f-f0def148f590Open link
WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 1 WMSCopy linkPreview
WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 1 WFSCopy linkN/A
OGC API - Features serviceCopy linkOpen link
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-FGDB.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-GeoJSON.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-GML.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-KML.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-MID_MIF.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-SHP.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle1-TAB.zipZIPDownload