WFD SSSI Ditches

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA095. ‘WFD SSSI Water bodies Cycle 1’ are Drainage Ditches in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) that have been extracted from Natural England’s SSSI dataset. These data show sites that have been categorised as SSSI’s due to the presence either species rich ditch systems or where rare species are found. This dataset was previously known as WFD SSSI Ditches. It had also been reported within the original WFD Lake Waterbodies. Each water body has been assigned ‘EA_WB_ID’, which is a unique identifier that enables a link to WFD attributes. This is equivalent to the WB_ID field for Cycle 2 water bodies, however, SSSI Ditches were not reported in Cycle 2.