f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:15:32 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage 2018-07-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 doi: Durant, M.J., Counsell, C.J. (2018). Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 This dataset is an inventory of reservoir details for the UK. It provides information, including reservoir location, type (impounding or non-impounding), use (water resources, hydro-electric, ecological, flood storage, canal), capacity, planning date, construction date, catchment National River Flow Archive (NRFA) gauge references and membership of a reservoir group, based on current usage within the CEH Monthly Hydrological Summary (https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/monthly-hydrological-summary-uk). The dataset comprises 273 individual reservoirs, which amount to approximately 90% of total UK reservoir storage. Data quality has been recorded, using a data flag system and a notes section, with references relevant to each reservoir provided. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 Durant, M. HR Wallingford Ltd m.durant@hrwallingford.com pointOfContact Durant, M.J. HR Wallingford Ltd m.durant@hrwallingford.com author Counsell, C.J. HR Wallingford Ltd c.counsell@hrwallingford.com author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Hydrography theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Hydrology Historic Droughts Drought Catalogue Drought Inventory Droughts Reservoir otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Durant, M.J., Counsell, C.J. (2018). Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 textTable 1000 English utf8 inlandWaters 1789-01-01 2001-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Information on reservoirs and their capacity was collected from the Environment Agency under Open Government Licence through a Freedom of Information request, and the UK Lakes Portal (CEH). Information was then gathered from internet searches. The quality of source data has been identified wherever possible through the use of a data flag system, and use of the notes section. References are supplied for all information within the inventory. The composition of reservoir groups were confirmed through correspondence with Water Companies responsible for submitting storage volumes for the Hydrological Summaries, produced by CEH. The inventory includes reservoirs up to 1,600 megalitre (Ml) capacity, as well as reservoirs below this capacity that are included within reservoir groups for which there is historic storage information and sufficient information on planning and construction dates. The threshold of 1,600 Ml was decided, based on less available information for smaller reservoirs, and that 1,600 Ml equates to approximately 90% capacity of all reservoirs in the Reservoirs Act 1975.