Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Water Framework Directive Section 4 Discharges
This is a points dataset of licensed and licensable Section 4 discharges to water to support the characterisation of waterbodies for the 3rd Cycle of River Basin Management Planning and beyond. These sites were collected by EPA, in conjunction with the Local Authorities, in early 2024 and published in November 2024. This dataset takes in account, among other datasets, the Section 4s dataset developed in 2005 as Point Source Pressures for the Article 5 Characterisation and Risk Assessment Report for the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC; (European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations 2003 (SI 722 of 2003)) and the previously collated October 2015 dataset.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Section 4's
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-04-01T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-04-01T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-11-18T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- US.IE.EPA.WFD_Section4s
- Purpose
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To support the characterisation of waterbodies for the 2nd Cycle of River Basin Management Planning.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Informatics
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMETInspireTheme
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Utility and governmental services
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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waterbody
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pressure
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Environmental Protection Agency
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section 4
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section 4's
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wfd
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water framework directive
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point source pressures
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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
- 2005-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- 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
Informatics
Publisher
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name application/json
http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=EPA:WFD_Section4s&maxFeatures=50&outputFormat=application%2Fjson&srsName=EPSG:4326 GeoJSON
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
http://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download Download data
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Utility and governmental services
- 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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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 in order to identify those waterbodies that are at risk of failing the objectives of the directive. This data will support the characterisation of waterbodies for the 3rd Cycle of River Basin Management Planning. Section 4's (under the Water Pollution Acts) are Local Authority Licensed industries that discharge trade effluent into waters. The majority of the data was collected from the relevant Local Authority but additional data was acquired from EPA, Irish Water, GSI, RPS, DECC and DHLGH. It was attempted to verify the location of each point with a confidence value applied using a traffic light system. A confidence value of green or orange was achieved on approximately 83% of the dataset and this represents the dataset currently published. Approximately 17% of the dataset could not be mapped or were mapped in obviously incorrect locations and, so as to avoid confusion, were excluded from this dataset but are available upon request from EPA.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9c7532c3-ce9a-4029-8e43-7a21bf8ae064 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-11-14T14:52:35.583Z
- 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
Data Analyst
Point of contact
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