Water Framework Directive (WFD) Regulations Cycle 3 Classification

• Published by: Natural Resources Wales
• Last updated: 12 May 2023
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

  This dataset shows the boundaries and baseline classification, undertaken in 2021, for The Water Framework Directive (WFD) Cycle 3. It is an update in classification for all water bodies in Wales following on from the cycle 1 and cycle 2 classification rounds.

The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017 (referred to as the WFD Regulations) provide a framework for managing the water environment in England and Wales. The Directive aims for “good status” of all ground and surface water (rivers, lakes, transitional water, and coastal waters). Under the WFD Regulations, a river basin management plan must be prepared for each river basin district. The plan includes environmental objectives and a summary of the programmes of measures required to achieve those objectives.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-05-03
• Access contraints: This data has been derived from a range of third party and NRW owned records. There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
• Harvest GUID: 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313235343538
• Extent: Latitude: 53.51306700° to 51.24082900°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.77774100° to -2.60886500°
• Dataset reference date: 2023-04-19 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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See the use constraints for each individual Cycle 3 layer, as it will vary depending on the data used in its creation. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.