WFD River Waterbodies is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using of the Environment Agency - General Quality Assessment (GQA) River Stretches dataset this is copied directly from the CEH 1:50K River Network with some additional stretches added in by the Environment Agency. Additional stretches were added to cover all stretches designated under the Fresh Water Fish Directive, all stretches designated within riverine SSSIs, and ensuring that all riverine abstractions which contributed to the designation of a Drinking Water Protected Area were sited on a designated river waterbody. In addition to this, some stretches were added where the upstream catchment size was > 10km2, but no other river stretch was designated (10km2 was the original cut-off catchment size form defining a waterbody under the WFD). The resultant WFD river waterbody datasets is a sub-set of the CEH network, including only stretches that meet any of the criteria outlined above. WFD River waterbodies share the same 'EA_WB_ID' as their river waterbody catchment allowing these 2 datasets to be linked. All river waterbodies are associated with a waterbody catchment. Not all catchments have a designated WFD river waterbody within them. These data apply to Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered by WFD River Waterbodies Cycle 2.

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Attributes (137)

Attribute name Label Description
OBJECTID
EA_WB_ID
NAME
RBD
WATER_CAT
RBD_NAME
CATCHMENT
SURVEILLA_
TYPE
TYPE_DESC
HYDRO_STAT
PA
PABW
PADW
PAFF
PANI
PAUW
PAWB
PAHS
RSKOV
RSKPNT
PT_METS
PT_PEST
PT_OTH
DSD
PT_RAS
RSKDFF
MINES
PEST
SHEEP
ACID
SEDI
P_AG
URB
RSKCSSAN
NH3
BOD
RSKCSNUTS
NO3
P
RSKWABFL
RSKPMOR
RSKAL
YR_CLASSN
ECO_CLASS
ECO_2010
ECO_2011
ECO_2012
ECO_2013
ECO_2014
STATPOT
ECO_BIO
ECOBIO006
ECOBIO005
ECOBIO003
ECOBIO002
ECO_GEN
ECOPHYG005
ECOPHYG008
ECOPHYG009
ECOPHYG002
ECO_HM
ECOHYD001
ECOHYD002
ANNEX8CHEM
ECOPHYS003
ECOPHYS004
ECOPHYS008
ECOPHYS012
ECOPHYS016
ECOPHYS017
ECOPHYS019
ECOPHYS020
ECOPHYS022
ECOPHYS024
ECOPHYS025
ECOPHYS028
ECOPHYS029
ECOPHYS030
ECOPHYS032
ECOPHYS037
ECOPHYS038
CHEM_CLASS
CHEM_PR
CHEMPRIN1
CHEMPRIN2
CHEMPRIN3
CHEMPRIN4
CHEMPRIN5
CHEMPRIN6
CHEM_PHZ
CHEMPRIH1
CHEMPRIH3
CHEMPRIH4
CHEMPRIH5
CHEMPRIH6
CHEMPRIH7
CHEMPRIH8
CHEMPRIH9
CHEMPRIH11
CHEMPRIH13
CHEMPRIH14
CHEMPRIH15
CHEMPRIH16
CHEMPRIH17
CHEMPRIH18
CHEMPRIH19
CHEMPRIH20
CHEMPRIH21
CHEMPRIH22
CHEMPRIH23
CHEMPRIH24
CHEMPRIH25
CHEMPRIH26
CHEMPRIH27
CHEMPRIH28
CHEMPRIH31
CHEMPRIH32
CHEMPRIH33
CHEMPRIH34
CHEMPRIH35
CHEMPRIH36
CHEMPRIH37
ECOPRED15
CHEMPRED15
OVOBJ
ECOOBJ
CHEMOBJ
ECOREASON
CHEMREASON
OVREASON
N_MEAS
SWMITM
EXPORTDATE
GlobalID
Shape_STLength__
fme_geometry

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Inland Waters

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