Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwater bodies Cycle 2

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Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwater bodies Cycle 2 (2014-2019) is a spatial (polygon) dataset which has been created for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2 of the WFD defines them as '…all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil'. For the purposes of reporting under the WFD a groundwater body represent a distinct body of groundwater flow with a coherent flow unit including recharge and discharge areas with little flow across the boundaries. These reflect hydrogeological characteristics containing information on flow and stage properties, recharge and vulnerability to pollution. This has been undertaken through defining aquifers into different types and broken into catchment units at Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) scale.

Attribution statement

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Derived in part from 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 scale digital data under permission from British Geological Survey. ©NERC.

Identification info

Date (Publication): 2016-12-09

Status

Point of contact

Role	Organisation	Electronic mail address
Originator	Natural Resources Wales (NRW)	opendata@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Spatial representation type: Vector

Topic category

Environment

Extent

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Extent

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Theme

features

Place

NRW_WFD_GROUNDWATER_C2

Resource constraints

Access constraints: Unrestricted

Use constraints: Licence Unrestricted

Other constraints: Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

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CSV

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Zipped Shapefile

OnLine resource: Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwater bodies Cycle 2.dxf

DXF

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GML 2.0

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GML 3.1.1

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Excel

OnLine resource: Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwater bodies Cycle 2.json

GeoJSON

OnLine resource: inspire-nrw:NRW_WFD_GROUNDWATER_C2

NRW_WFD_GROUNDWATER_C2

OnLine resource: inspire-nrw:NRW_WFD_GROUNDWATER_C2

NRW_WFD_GROUNDWATER_C2

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Metadata

Metadata identifier: urn:uuid/a1574a0b-bcfa-4d52-a673-2803b01a9811

Language: English

Character encoding: anyValidURI

Contact

Role	Organisation	Electronic mail address
Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type: Dataset

Metadata linkage

https://hosted-metadata-uat.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/a1574a0b-bcfa-4d52-a673-2803b01a9811

Date info (Creation): 2025-02-28T16:04:41.30883Z

Date info (Creation): 2025-02-28T15:02:37.759434Z

Date info (Revision): 2025-02-28T16:16:56.731417Z

Date info (Creation): 2005-03-31T19:13:30

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

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