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WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 2

Summary

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2 of the WFD defines them 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. These data apply to Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 1 is covered by AfA081.

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 2015. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

The Cycle 2 RBD boundaries look very similar to the cycle 1 RBD boundaries but are based on the Cycle 2 versions of the river waterbody catchments, transitional and coastal waters. As a result some of the base datasets used for their delineation have changes and they have been declared OpenData.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

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

Language

English

Metadata identifier

77bd5640-d465-11e4-bbc2-f0def148f590


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 2014

Revision date

30 October 2014

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 2014

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Download data by area of interestN/AOpen link
WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 2 WMSCopy linkPreview
WFD - River Basin Districts Cycle 2 WFSCopy linkN/A
OGC API - Features serviceCopy linkOpen link
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-FGDB.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GeoJSON.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-GML.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-KML.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-MID_MIF.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-SHP.zipZIPDownload
WFDRiverBasinDistrictsCycle2-TAB.zipZIPDownload