Alternate title

WFD RWB Status 2010 - 2015

Date (Creation)

2016-09-12T00:00:00

Date (Revision)

2016-09-12T00:00:00

Date (Publication)

2017-05-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier

HY.IE.EPA.WFD_RWB_STATUS_2010_2015

Purpose

Used in River Basin Management Plans

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency	Water Framework Directive	gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GemetInspireTheme

• Hydrography

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

• water

• aquatic environment

• environmental quality

• water quality

• water management

Environmental Protection Agency

• River waterbody status

• RWB status

• river water status

• river waters

• hydrography

• clean waters

• water quality monitoring

• water status

ISO 3166

• IE

Use limitation

no limitations

Use limitation

Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0

Access constraints

License

Use constraints

License

Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Inland waters

Begin date

2010-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2015-12-31T00:00:00

Supplemental Information

See gis.epa.ie for full details on data resource

Reference system identifier

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	10.x

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency	Water Framework Directive	gis@epa.ie	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
text/html	http://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download	Download Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
image/png	http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:WFD_RWBStatus_20102015&styles=&bbox=31070.5521999998,23444.089199999347,334068.88989999983,459450.1916000005&width=533&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng	WMS GetMap

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Each Waterbody is monitored by the EPA and assigned an overall status based on the lowest status for the quality elements monitored within that RWB. There are 6 quality elements: Fish, General Physic-chemical, Hydromorphology, MacroInvertebrates, MacroInvertebrates-Margaratifera and Plants –Diatoms. Where physic-chemical results do not fall into Good or Moderate statuses with high confidence, sites are assigned a Pass due to the lower confidence associated with sites that are potentially of High status. The Good and Moderate or Lower categories for general physic-chemical are assigned with a high degree of confidence (i.e. 99% certainty). A schema for status was developed and agreed with the WFD GIS and Data Management group, which includes the waterbody code and a time stamp. It is not possible to monitor all Irish RWBs and the monitoring programme is designed to be representative and to cover the larger RWBs in the state. Not all RWBs are covered and this therefore necessitates extrapolation of status to the unmonitored RWBs from monitored RWBs. The column Extrapolated identifies which waterbodies have been extrapolated and not monitored directly. Where possible, a status is extrapolated from the closest, most similar RWB in terms of typology and risk assessment within the same River Basin District. Cluster analysis was used to assign all RWBs to one of 12 clusters based on their similarity in terms of type and WFD Article 5 point and diffuse risk assessment.

Metadata

File identifier

0aa63697-525c-4c02-9fdb-9ac09a473822 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-07-21T09:47:08.104Z

Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version

1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency	Data Analyst	gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact