Alternate title

WFD River Waterbody Risk Score (2008)

Date (Creation)

2008-01-01T00:00:00

Date (Publication)

2008-01-01T00:00:00

Date (Revision)

2008-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier

HY.IE.EPA.WFD_vmMinRiskRWB

Purpose

Used in River Basin Management Plans. The WFD sets out that a member state shall implement the necessary measures to prevent deterioration of the status of all surface waterbodies, and shall protect and restore all surface water bodies with the aim of achieving good status by 2015.

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 body

• surface water

• river water

• risk

Environmental Protection Agency

• waterbody

• water framework directive

• wfd

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

2008-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2008-01-01T00:00:00

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
dbf	1

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
application/json	http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=EPA:WFD_RiverWaterbodyRiskScore&maxFeatures=50&outputFormat=application%2Fjson&srsName=EPSG:4326	GeoJSON

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_RiverWaterbodyRiskScore&styles=&bbox=31357.66810000036,26671.968599999323,362951.2193,457177.33249999955&width=591&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng	WMS GetMap

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) Article 5 characterisation process requires an analysis of the pressures and impacts that human activities exert on Irish waters to be undertaken. The purpose of the analysis was to identify surface water bodies and groundwater bodies at risk of failing the objectives of the directive due to the effect of human activities. A number of tests were undertaken to determine whether the waterbody is going to achieve good status. These tests were carried out by RPS. Each waterbody was assigned a risk score for each test completed. For Ireland it was considered that use of four risk categories/scores (at significant risk (1a), probably at significant risk (1b), probably not at significant risk (2a) and not at significant risk (2b)) improved the prioritisation of follow-up actions and recognised the uncertainties associated with the analysis and/or datasets. If a waterbody was at risk for only one test the overall characterisation for that river was ‘At Risk’. Each record has the WFD European Code for the waterbody it refers to and a time stamp referring to the date that the risk status was compiled.

Metadata

File identifier

55890515-092f-4715-a00e-8d8db19b9ebf XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-07-28T12:05:39.919Z

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