Bathing Water Locations

The location of and other information about (a) 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, and (b) other monitored waters not managed under the Regulations (non-identified bathing waters).

Simple

Alternate title

BW Locations
Date (Publication)
2018-10-23T00:00:00
Citation identifier
HH.IE.EPA.BATH_BATHINGLOCATIONS
Purpose

To provide information on bathing waters that local authorities monitor for water quality during the bathing season and report to EPA, including locations, amenities, facilities and overall water quality.

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

  • beach description

  • beach profile

  • beach amenities

  • beach facilities

  • wellbeing

  • health and wellbeing

  • identified

  • designated

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

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/locations

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 location and other information 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> XY points are created from the co-ordinates reported. The Beach ID for identified bathing waters is a unique identifier and in the format required by the EC (County Code, River Basin District, Bathing Water type (e.g. Lake = BWL) Coastal, Transitional) Waterbody code and a unique 4 digit number. Local authorities separately report information for other monitored waters not managed under the Regulations (‘non-identified’) and for these the Beach ID is the monitoring station code in the Monitoring Data System (MDS) in EDEN.

Metadata

File identifier
da6f461e-efea-40e8-b36a-f829e367f23c XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2018-11-22T11:38:16
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
 
 

Overviews

overview
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Spatial extent

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Keywords

Environmental Protection Agency

bathing bathing water quality beach amenities beach description beach facilities beach profile beach quality designated health and wellbeing identified 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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