BGS Hosted Metadata
Flood Warning Areas
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA054 Flood Warning Areas are geographical areas where we expect flooding to occur and where we provide a Flood Warning Service. They generally contain properties that are expected to flood from rivers or the sea and in some areas, from groundwater.
Specifically, Flood Warning Areas define locations within the Flood Warning Service Limit that represent a discrete community at risk of flooding. A discrete community is a recognised and named geographical community, which can be an urban area, a significant suburb of a large city or a village or a hamlet. The purpose of Flood Warnings is to alert people that flooding is expected and they should take action to protect themselves and their property. Flood Warnings are issued when flooding is expected to occur, Severe Flood Warnings are issued to similar areas when there is a danger to life or widespread disruption is expected.
INFORMATION WARNING:
Groundwater flood warning areas are properties based, usually containing a discrete urban area, suburb, city, village or hamlet and were created in various ways. In general technical specialists used the national groundwater dataset, historical maps, bedrock geology and records of properties affected by groundwater flooding in the past to create the groundwater flood warning areas. Additional data sources, including groundwater susceptibility maps, borehole data, local modelling and LiDAR may also have been used depending on the location of the area.
The triggers for Flood Warnings for groundwater flooding are based on actual observed groundwater levels. There are currently no flood risk maps for groundwater so our flood warning areas for groundwater tend to cover properties which we know have been flooded by groundwater in the past. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2021. All rights reserved.
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Flood Warning Target Area
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TFW
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FLOOD_WARNING_AREAS_010K
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flood_warning_areas_010k
- Date (Creation)
- 2004-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-11-24T11:30:00
- Citation identifier
- DSTR02948
- Citation identifier
- 87e5d78f-d465-11e4-9343-f0def148f590
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environment Agency
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Quarterly
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GEMET Thesaurus version 2.1
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flood
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flooding
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safety measure
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Open Government Licence
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- Other restrictions
- Access constraints
- License
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- Copyright
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There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Inland waters
- Extent type code
- Yes
- Geographic identifier
- http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
- Begin date
- 2021-11-24T11:30:00
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Name Version Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
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Open format | Geography Markup Language (GML)
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Proprietary format | MapInfo (TAB)
Not Known
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Flood Zones
Metadata
- File identifier
- 87e5d78f-d465-11e4-9343-f0def148f590 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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Spatial Data Explorer (WebGIS)
863bb531-4c51-4a3f-858c-c592e8ba5bf7
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-06-11T14:35:40.701303Z
- Metadata standard name
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Gemini
- Metadata standard version
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2.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environment Agency
Point of contact
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