Alternate title

INSPIRE WFD RPA Surface Water Bodies for Drinking Water

Date (Creation)

2016-09-01

Date (Revision)

2022-11-18

Date (Publication)

2016-09-01

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.IE.EPA.WFD_RPA_SWBforDrinkingWater

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.DrinkingWaterProtectionArea

Purpose

To identify the Drinking Water Surface Water Bodies in accordance with European Communities (Drinking Water) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (SI no. 278/2007).

This dataset represents a snapshot taken in September 2016 for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle 2.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

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

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

• Drinking water protection areas (Water Framework Directive)

Spatial scope

• National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• drinking water

• lake

Environmental Protection Agency

• lake waterbody

• wfd

• hydrography

• water quality monitoring

• surface water

Place

• Ireland

Theme

• High Value Dataset

• HVD

• Category: Environmental

Specific usage

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	User

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions to access and use

Other constraints

CC BY 4.0

Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

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

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

This dataset represents a snapshot taken in September 2016 for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle 2.

The legislation governing the quality of drinking water is set out in the European Communities (Drinking Water) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (SI no. 278/2007).

The actual protected areas for drinking waters are not outlined within the Regulations, as a result, the protected area for drinking waters is represented by the water body from which the water is abstracted and the associated drinking water abstraction point.

During 2004-2005 and again in 2008-2009 a register of drinking water abstractions was collected from Local Authorities. This abstractions list was used to identify water bodies that are sources for drinking water. The entire water body is to be used to represent the protected area (groundwater body, lake or river).

Where water is abstracted from a river or lake that was not initially selected as a water body (i.e. 1st or 2nd order rivers or lakes smaller than 50 hectares) the water is then designated as a protected area and the 1st or 2nd order stream or small lake is reclassified as a waterbody.

Spatial Accuracy: all protected water bodies are extracted from the existing WFD water body layers: spatial accuracy of each of the water body types (river, lake or groundwater) is described in the metadata for that layer. Thematic Accuracy: Drinking water scheme and abstraction point codes are those used locally at the Local Authority level.

Protected area codes are unique incremental numbers. Currency: Abstractions data was collected in 2004 and updated in 2009. Logical Consistency: The dataset meets the topological requirements set out in Guidance Document number 22: Support for Reporting of RBMP, Guidance on reporting of spatial data.

Metadata

File identifier

46dc7205-bfa2-4022-95bc-4f540d0f4f78 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-11-26T15:02:03.3801595Z

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

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