IRELAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER
Blue Dot Catchments
What this layer shows
The Blue Dot network: the 334 river sub-basins Ireland is committed to keeping or restoring to high ecological status. Working near one raises the bar for everything.
Publisher and licence
Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · CC-BY 4.0
© Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), CC-BY 4.0
Where the data comes from
WFS · gis.epa.ie
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Facts shown for each feature
Ecological status
In these presets
Angling & water
Salmonid waters, water-body status, the catchments feeding them, and which agricultural pressure each sub-basin needs work on. Ireland runs a WHOLE-TERRITORY Nitrates Action Programme (S.I. 113/2022), so there are no NVZ lines to look for: the sub-basin flags are the risk differentiation other countries get from zone boundaries.