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• Bathing Waters ZOI Catchments

  Bathing water zones of influence (ZOI) are defined as an area where if heavy rainfall occurs may lead to surface water runoff causing a reduction in water quality at a designated bathing water....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 8 March 2021

• Areas Affecting Bathing Waters

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA143. This dataset comprises a polygon relating to each site identified under the Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC); however these polygons have...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 October 2022

• Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations

  The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 May 2024

• Health risks of bathing waters: Links between gastrointestinal illness and marine bathing

  The 2006/7/EC European Bathing Directive stipulates water quality classification standards for recreational bathing waters based on specified limits for Faecal Indicator Organisms (FIOs). Presence...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 31 August 2014

• Water recreation locations, zones and catchment summaries (England)

  This dataset accompanies Environment Agency Chief Scientist's Group research report on 'Exploring water recreation in England' (SC230022/R). The project outlines the extent of recreational use of...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 July 2025

• Northwest European shelf seas - Phytoplankton pigments - 2020 to 2023

  These data contain concentrations in micrograms per litre (ug/L) of the individual accessory pigments of phytoplankton measured by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Pigment samples...

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 26 March 2024

• GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (England)

  This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations defined as strategic opportunity areas (SOAs). These England-wide dataset incorporates the...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 15 July 2022