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• Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water)

  Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water) are defined by the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017 (or WFD Regulations) as locations where raw water...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 November 2022

• Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)

  Drinking Water Groundwater Safeguard Zones (SgZs) are established around public water supplies where additional pollution control measures are needed. The Water Framework Directive requires that...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 July 2025

• Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water)

  Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are catchment areas that influence the water quality for their respective Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water). They are identified where the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 November 2022

• Source Protection Zones [Merged]

  Source Protection Zones [Merged] have been created as public facing outlines where common boundaries and overlaps (based on zone number) have been removed. Source Protection Zones (SPZs) are...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 July 2025

• WFD RBMP2 Risk Assessments - Protected Areas

  This dataset contains risk assessment data produced to support the cycle 2 river basin management plans. It contains protected areas (Shellfish Waters and Bathing Waters) that are assessed to be at...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Marine Protected Area Habitats and Species Open Data (England)

  This dataset contains a collation of marine habitat and species biotope records created during contracts commissioned by Natural England; collected by Defra and associated bodies/agencies; or...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 29 January 2025

• Water Body Status Objectives Anglian GW

  Water body status objectives describe the long term aim for specific parts of the water environment. This dataset includes the latest objectives of all water bodies in the Anglian GW catchment....

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England

  This dataset contains the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 shellfish water protected area designations in England. These are waters designated by...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 June 2020

• WFD RBMP2 Protected Area Register and Information

  This dataset contains protected area register as it was at the start of Cycle 2 and further information on the protected areas including objectives set for Cycle 2. The data is for English river...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Sensitive Areas - Nitrates

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA251. This dataset is a shapefile showing the extent of UWWTD sensitive areas (nitrate). The Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC)...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 November 2013

• Nitrate Sensitive Areas

  NSAs are carefully selected areas covering groundwater sources used to supply drinking water. In these areas incentives were offered to farmers to undertake significant changes in agricultural...

  • Published by: Natural England

• Flood Risk Areas

  This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA256.

  Flood Risk Areas identify locations where there is believed to be significant flood risk. The EU Floods Directive refers to Flood...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 22 December 2018

• Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Water Storage Areas

  The Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) includes several layers of information. This dataset covers Water Storage Areas. It shows those areas that act as a balancing reservoir, storage basin...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 20 August 2025

• Bathing Water

  The Environment Agency collects water quality data 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 other...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 5 November 2015

• WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined in the Water Framework Directive as '…a body of standing inland surface water'....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 January 2011

• WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 April 2012

• Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2022

  This is a polygon dataset showing Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies, which was created to meet the requirements of the WFD. This dataset provides attribution relating to the 2022...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 March 2024

• Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2019

  This is a polygon dataset showing Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies, which was created to meet the requirements of the WFD. This dataset provides attribution relating to the 2019...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 March 2024

• EWCO - Water Quality

  Spatial data supporting appropriately located and designed woodland creation to help reduce pollutants through land use change that reduces fertilizer application or by creating woodland that...

  • Published by: Forestry Commission
  • Updated: 13 January 2023

• 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