UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Groundwater Bodies (WFD 2025)
What this layer shows
England's 266 groundwater bodies with their 2025 Water Framework Directive classification from the Environment Agency: overall, quantitative and chemical status, and the drinking water and nitrate designations each one carries. Objectives read "Not Yet Available" until the Environment Agency publishes them.
Publisher and licence
Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved · Open Government Licence v3.0
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Open Government Licence v3.0
Where the data comes from
WFS · environment.data.gov.uk
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Facts shown for each feature
Status · Quantitative status · Chemical status · Water body ID · River basin district · Year
In these presets
Contaminated land
Old landfills, regulated waste sites and the water beneath them. England only. No geology, superficial deposits or radon yet: BGS publishes its 625K geology openly and it is on the list. 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)
- Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)
- Principal Salmon Fisheries (England)
- Bathing Waters (England)
- Bathing Waters (Scotland)
- Bathing Waters (Wales)
- Bathing Waters (Northern Ireland)
- River Water Body Catchments (WFD 2025)
- Statutory Main River Map