UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)
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What this layer shows
Safeguard zones around groundwater drinking supplies, paired with their Source Protection Zones: the catchments where nitrate or pesticide pressure on an aquifer is being managed at the surface. 251 zones.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · services1.arcgis.com
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
Facts shown for each feature
Zone · Linked SPZ
In these presets
Contaminated land
Old landfills, regulated waste sites and the water beneath them. England only, and no geology, superficial deposits or radon: those are not published as open national services for Great Britain, so a ground report still has to be commissioned.
Other layers in this group
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones 2013 (Wales)
- Internal Drainage Districts
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones 2021
- Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface)
- Bathing Waters (England)
- Bathing Waters (Scotland)
- Bathing Waters (Wales)
- Bathing Waters (Northern Ireland)
- Groundwater Bodies (WFD)
- Statutory Main River Map
- Source Protection Zones