Irish Spatial Data Exchange
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
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WFD HSO Water Bodies
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-04-17
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-03-26
- Citation identifier
- HY.IE.EPA.WFD_HighStatusObjectiveWaterbodies
- Purpose
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The High Status Objective/Blue Dot waterbodies are those that have a high ecological status objective under the Water Framework Directive and include rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waterbodies. High status objectives were set for waterbodies during Water Framework Directive characterisation for the 2nd cycle and were published in Irelands River Basin Management Plan 2018-2021 on 17th April 2018. Waterbodies were assigned a high status objective where they were consistently achieving high ecological status in the past (irrespective of whether or not they are currently achieving high status), or where they were within one of eight particularly important freshwater pearl mussel catchments. Additional waterbodies can be upgraded to High Status Objective/Blue Dot if these begin to consistently achieve high ecological status and 19 waterbodies were added for the 3rd River Basin Management cycle. When achieving their status objectives the High Status Objective/Blue Dot waterbodies contain much of our best aquatic habitat, protect many iconic and vulnerable species and provide a vital source of sensitive aquatic taxa which can recolonise other waterbodies.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Water Framework Directive
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GemetInspireTheme
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Hydrography
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Environmental Protection Agency
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hydrography
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objectives
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water quality
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high status
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Water framework directive
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blue dots
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blue dot
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coastal
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transitional
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river
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lake
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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water
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water quality
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water management
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ISO 3166
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IE
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- Use limitation
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no limitations
- Use limitation
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Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- 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
Vertical datum
- Supplemental Information
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See gis.epa.ie for full details on data resource
- Reference system identifier
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Water Framework Directive
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download Download Data
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Hydrography
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.1
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-04-17
- Explanation
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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
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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
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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
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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
- 2023-07-28T13:29:46.62Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
GIS Team
Point of contact
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