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• Pollution Inventory

  There are eight downloadable files for this data; for the years 2013 to 2023 from the resource links.

  The Pollution Inventory (PI) has been developed to collate information on annual mass releases...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 February 2025

• WFD Cycle 2 Other Pollutants Classification

  This dataset is a subset of the "WFD Classification Status Cycle 2" product and contains classification data for the sub element Other Pollutants (abbreviated to OP) as used in the assessment for...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Cycle 2 Specific Pollutants Classification

  This dataset is a subset of the "WFD Classification Status Cycle 2" product and contains classification data for the sub element Specific Pollutants (abbreviated to SP) as used in the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Environmental Pollution Incidents (Category 1 and 2)

  Environmental Pollution Incident data filtered for Categories 1 and 2. Details of environmental incidents within the remit of the Environment Agency are held on the National Incident Recording...

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

• Water bodies impacted by pollution from abandoned metal mines

  List of water bodies (rivers) with significant failures of environmental quality standards for metals (cadmium, lead, nickel, copper, zinc and/or iron) caused by abandoned metal mines in England....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 2 December 2019

• 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

• 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 (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

• 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

• 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

• Sensitive Areas - Bathing Waters

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA250. This dataset is a shapefile showing the extent of UWWTD sensitive areas (bathing waters). The Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 April 2015

• 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

• WFD Cycle 2 ecological water body classification

  Ecological status classifications can be composed of up to five different assessments:

  1. An assessment of status indicated by a biological quality element such as fish, invertebrates or algae. 2....
  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Cycle 2 chemical water body classification

  Chemical status is assessed from compliance with environmental standards for chemicals that are defined as priority substances and/or priority hazardous substances. Chemical status is recorded as...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Water Quality Exemptions Public Register Online

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA208. Certain activities are exempt from the need to have an environmental permit. In order to qualify for an exemption, the discharge or activity...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Water Framework Directive Cycle 2 Heavily Modified Water Body Use and Physical Modification

  A requirement of the Water Framework Directive is to report the physical modifications and uses that have resulted in a heavily modified water body. This dataset lists the physical modifications...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Biology

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA161. The General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicator scheme or GQAHI (previously known as GQA) was the Environment Agency's national...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Chemistry

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA162.1 'Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Chemistry - GQAHI (England)'. The General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicator...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses (Wales) - Chemistry

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA162.2 'Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Chemistry (Wales). The General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicator scheme or...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD cycle 1 surface water classification status and objectives

  The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) Ground water Classification Status Cycle 2 dataset contains classification status for water bodies in England reported from 2013 onwards. For...

  • Published by: Environment Agency