High Status Objective Water Bodies

These are coastal, transitional, river and lake water bodies that have a High-Status Objective under the Water Framework Directive.

Simple

Alternate title

WFD HSO Water Bodies
Date (Creation)
2018-04-17
Date (Publication)
2020-03-26
Citation identifier
HY.IE.EPA.WFD_HighStatusObjectiveWaterbodies
Purpose

The protection and restoration of these high-status water bodies is a priority under Ireland’s River Basin Management Plan (RBMP).

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

Environmental Protection Agency

  • hydrography

  • objectives

  • water quality

  • high status

  • Water framework directive

  • blue dots

  • blue dot

  • coastal

  • transitional

  • river

  • lake

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • water

  • water quality

  • water management

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
  • Environment
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Begin date
2012-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2015-12-31T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

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

application/pdf

 		https://www.housing.gov.ie/water/water-quality/river-basin-management-plans/river-basin-management-plan-2018-2021

River Basin Management Plan
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

text/html

 		https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download

Download Data
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:HighStatusObjective_Rivers&styles=&bbox=42040.00009999983,34159.987800000235,322762.8870000001,448804.8432&width=519&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap - Rivers
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:HighStatusObjective_Lake&styles=&bbox=50553.51690000016,62345.351600000635,255705.15759999957,443395.4260000009&width=413&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap - Lakes
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:HighStatusObjective_Transitional&styles=&bbox=45037.75009999983,79108.8021000009,186912.24260000046,406451.34300000034&width=332&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap - Transitional
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:HighStatusObjective_Coastal&styles=&bbox=32796.66069999989,33617.49129999988,336369.9846000001,455125.0879999995&width=553&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap - Coastal
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Hydrography
Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.1
Date (Publication)
2014-04-17
Explanation

The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Alternate title

INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
No
Statement

These objectives were set for water bodies during Water Framework Directive Characterisation for the 2nd Cycle and were published in Irelands River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021 on 17 April 2018. These water bodies have the ‘High Status Objective’ box ticked in CRM which this dataset pulls from.

Metadata

File identifier
9c3662ca-5340-42c1-81ce-02a3d6213231 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-08-18T14:24:57Z
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile
Metadata standard version

1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

GIS Team

gis@edenireland.ie

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

Environmental Protection Agency

Water framework directive blue dot blue dots coastal high status hydrography lake objectives river transitional water quality
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

water water management water quality
GemetInspireTheme

Hydrography


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