Bathing Water Alerts

Information on any current in-season bathing water incidents and any bathing restrictions issued for identified bathing waters (beaches and lakes) under the Bathing Water Quality Directive 2006/7/EC which is implemented in Ireland through the Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008.

Simple

Alternate title

BW Incident Alerts
Date (Publication)
2018-10-23T00:00:00
Citation identifier
HH.IE.EPA.BATH_BATHINGALERTS
Purpose

To provide information on current in-season bathing water incidents or restrictions at bathing waters as reported by local authorities to EPA.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Bathing Water Team

bathingwater@epa.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GemetInspireTheme

  • Human Health and Safety

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • Bathing Water

  • beach

  • sea

  • lake

  • bathing seawater

  • environmental quality

  • health

  • human health

Environmental Protection Agency

  • bathing

  • water

  • seawater

  • bathing water quality

  • beach quality

  • swimming

  • wellbeing

  • health and wellbeing

  • identified

  • designated

  • pollution

  • incident

  • pollution incident

  • bathing restriction

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
2014-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2018-04-08T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

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

Bathing Water Team

bathingwater@epa.ie

Publisher
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

text/html

 		https://www.beaches.ie

View data
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

text/html

 		http://www.epa.ie/water/wm/bathing/

View Information
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

text/html

 		https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/hl/water/bathing/bathing%20water.html

View Information
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

application/json

 		https://data.epa.ie/bw/api/v1/alerts

API
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Human health and safety
Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date (Publication)
2013-12-10
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

Local authorities report bathing water incidents and any bathing restrictions issued for ‘identified’ bathing waters (monitored and managed under <a href=" http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2008/si/79/made/en/print"/>Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008 (SI No. 79 of 2008)) </a> to the EPA via the Bathing Water Information System (BWIS) on <a href=" http://www.epa.ie/enforcement/how/edenhelp/"/> EDEN (Environmental Data Exchange Network).</a> It is planned to extend this system to allow for reporting of incidents at other monitored waters not managed under the Regulations ('non-identified' bathing waters) in the future. There are three types of restrictions that can be applied by local authorities - a Prior Warning (possible impact that may or may not be realised), bathing advisory (Advice Not to Swim) and bathing prohibition (Do Not Swim).

Metadata

File identifier
d0f854d7-1555-4a27-a9a6-ee366d9dca5c XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2018-11-22T11:38:28
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

bathing bathing restriction bathing water quality beach quality designated health and wellbeing identified incident pollution pollution incident seawater swimming water wellbeing
GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

Bathing Water bathing seawater beach environmental quality health human health lake sea
GemetInspireTheme

Human Health and Safety


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