UNITED KINGDOM · ENGLAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Groundwater Bodies (WFD)
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What this layer shows
The 271 groundwater bodies England manages under the Water Framework Directive: the unit that abstraction licensing, nitrate rules and pollution response are all judged against. Ireland's equivalent suite has shipped since Batch H2.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · environment.data.gov.uk
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Facts shown for each feature
Water body ID · River basin district
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)
- Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)
- Bathing Waters (England)
- Bathing Waters (Scotland)
- Bathing Waters (Wales)
- Bathing Waters (Northern Ireland)
- Statutory Main River Map
- Source Protection Zones