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Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) 2017 - Combined (Final Designations)

Summary

This dataset sets out the Nitrate Vulnerable Zone designations following the 4 yearly review for implementation in 2017. These are the final designations following appeals. Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) are areas designated as being at risk from agricultural nitrate pollution. The designations are made in accordance with the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015. Waters are defined within the Nitrates Directive as polluted if they contain or could contain, if preventative action is not taken, nitrate concentrations greater than 50mg/l. This dataset supersedes the previous dataset ‘Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) 2017 – Surface Waters / Groundwaters / Eutrophic Waters (Pre appeals)’.

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Use limitation statement

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

Licence

Open Government Licence

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Derived in part from geological mapping data provided by the British Geological Survey © NERC. Derived in part from data provided by the National Soils Research Institute © Cranfield University. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016. Derived in part from data provided by the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs © Crown 2016 copyright Defra. Derived in part from data provided by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology © NERC. Derived in part from data provided by UK Water Companies.

Attribution statement

N/A

Technical information

Update frequency

asNeeded

Lineage

This datasets was created from modelling using the following data sources: Digital 1:50,000 river centre-lines (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), CEH Land cover map of Great Britain (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Geology (British Geological Survey), Population statistics per Super Output Area (Office of National Statistics), CORNINE 2006 land use maps (European Environment Agency). National Property Database 2008 (ODPM), Flow Data (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology / Wallingford HydroSolutions), NEAP-N agricultural loads (ADAS / Defra), Source Protection Zones (Environment Agency), WIMS monitoring data (Environment Agency), Water Framework Directive River Waterbodies (Environment Agency) Water Framework Directive River Catchment Waterbodies (Environment Agency), Water Framework Directive Groundwater Waterbodies (Environment Agency), Water Framework Directive Classification (Environment Agency), Water company monitoring data (UK Water Companies), Consented discharges (Environment Agency), HOST database (National Soil Research Institute / Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Customer and Land Database (Rural Payments Agency), 50m Digital Terrain model (Nextmap), MasterMap (Ordnance Survey), Meridian (Ordnance Survey).

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.922187 to 55.956737
  • Longitude from: -6.441658 to 2.170246
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

a5764b31-6899-4cf1-aaec-1149359f7331


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

05 June 2018

Revision date

N/A

Publication date

02 August 2018

Period

  • From: 11 July 2017

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Data and Supporting Information
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