AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Airport Noise - All Metrics - England Round 4

Data indicating the level of noise according to the strategic noise mapping of airport sources across England.
•	The day-evening-night level (Lden) is a noise indicator for overall annoyance based upon annual average A-weighted long-term sound over 24 hours with a 5 dB(A) penalty for evening noise (19:00-23:00) and a 10 dB(A) penalty for night-time noise (23:00-07:00).
•	The 16-hour equivalent continuous level (LAeq,16h) is a noise indicator which describes the annual average steady noise level over the 16-hour daytime period (07:00 to 23:00) which contains the same sound energy as the actual fluctuating sound across the same period.
•	The day level (Lday) is a daytime noise indicator based upon annual average A-weighted long-term sound over the daytime period (07:00-19:00) which contains the same sound energy as the actual fluctuating sound across the same period.
•	The evening level (Leve) is an evening noise indicator based upon annual average A-weighted long-term sound over the evening period (19:00-23:00) which contains the same sound energy as the actual fluctuating sound across the same period.
•	The night level (Lnight) is a night-time noise indicator based upon annual average A-weighted long-term sound over the night period (23:00-07:00) which contains the same sound energy as the actual fluctuating sound across the same period.
Noise levels are modelled on a 10m grid at a receptor height of 4m above ground.  The lowest threshold cutoff is 35dB for the Lnight metric, and 40dB for all other metrics.  However, modelling is completed by the competent authority for each airport and therefore actual thresholds vary depending on the data provided to Defra.  Data is available for all airport sources required under the Regulations.
This data is a product of the strategic noise mapping analysis undertaken in 2022 to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006 (as amended). Attribution statement: © Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. 

Tags: air traffic, air transportation, airport, environment, environmental impact, environmental noise, health, health effect of noise, legislation, modelling, noise, noise emission, noise exposure, noise legislation, noise level, noise pollutant, noise pollution, regulation, transportation
Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Tags: RetiredOpenData
Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Water Resource Management Plan Supply-Demand Balance Forecast Collated Data

Water companies in England have a statutory duty to create, consult and publish a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) every five years. This dataset is a collation of the WRMP forecast data submissions that water companies present to accompany their written plan. The data is provided at the resource zone and water company level from 2025 to 2050 as a minimum. Further information on the details and components that are represented in this dataset can be found on supporting tabs within the dataset. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. 

Tags: WRMP, environment, water management, water resources management
Organization: Environment Agency
Water Resource Management Plan Annual Review Data

Water companies in England have a statutory duty to create, consult and publish a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) every five years. They are also legally required to publish an update on the delivery on that plan each year. This dataset is a collation of the annual data submissions that water companies present to accompany that annual update. The data is provided at the water company level from 2005 to present. Each year’s data is presented on a separate tab. Where water company trading names have changed since 2005, we have collated using the present trading name of the water company. Veolia Water Projects’ data has been excluded from this dataset for reasons of national security. Further information on the details and components that are represented in this dataset can be found on supporting tabs within the dataset. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Annual review, WRMP, environment, water resources management
Organization: Environment Agency
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Transitional and Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2022 (Simplified)

This is a polygon dataset showing Water Framework Directive (WFD) Transitional (Estuary) and Coastal Water Bodies. This dataset provides attribution relating to the 2022 classification results, as well as other relevant information and data about each transitional and coastal water body.

It comprises both the transitional and the coastal water bodies used for the WFD. Article 2, clause 6 of the WFD defines transitional water bodies as ‘…bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but are substantially influenced by freshwater flows’. They are also referred to as estuaries. 

Transitional water bodies were defined from Mean High Water boundaries, taken directly from OS OpenMap - Local data, and Environment Agency estuarine boundaries defined for the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD). 

Article 2, clause 7 of the WFD defines coastal water bodies as ‘…a surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters’. Coastal waters were defined by territorial waters 1 nautical mile from the Mean High Water coastline taken directly from OS OpenMap - Local data. The boundary between coastal and estuarine waters was delineated using the Environment Agency defined transitional water bodies. Water bodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts.

The geometry in this dataset has been simplified to allow for faster web mapping services. The full resolution of this dataset is called WFD Transitional and Coastal Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2022 (Full Resolution). There are two layer files associated with this dataset. There is a layer file called Simplified_WFD_Transitional_and_Coastal_Water_Bodies_Cycle_3_Classification_2022_Ecological_Class.lyrx, and a layer file called Simplified_WFD_Transitional_and_Coastal_Water_Bodies_Cycle_3_Classification_2022_Chemical_Class.lyrx. The layer files display the chemical status, and the ecological status or potential for each transitional and coastal water body. Please note that there are limitations with the shapefile format of the data. The data applies to Cycle 3 of the WFD.  Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. 

Tags: Cycle 3, Hydrography, WFD, coastal water bodies, environment, surface water management, transitional water bodies
Organization: Environment Agency
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Surface Water Management Catchments Cycle 3

This is a polygon dataset showing Surface Water Management Catchments, which was created to meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Management Catchments are larger than Operational Catchments, but smaller than River Basin Districts. They contain multiple water bodies.

Management Catchments are the unit of geography for which action plans are drafted when implementing the WFD. WFD Management Catchments have been delineated by using WFD River Water Body Catchments as “building blocks” that have been aggregated together within a GIS, ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries (WFD River Water Body Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run through a hydrological model). Transitional and coastal waters were also combined into areas representing Management 'Catchments' for coastal areas. This process was conducted using expert judgement. WFD Management Catchments have an action plan published that relates to all water bodies that fall within its boundaries.

Created using hydrological models based on EA LiDAR data informed with the Detailed River Network which has residual Ordnance Survey rights.

There is a layer file associated with this dataset which is called WFD_Surface_Water_Management_Catchments_Cycle_3.lyrx. Please note that there are limitations with the shapefile format of the data. The data applies to Cycle 3 of the WFD. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Cycle 3, Hydrography, Surface Water Management Catchments, WFD, environment, surface water management
Organization: Environment Agency
Risk of Flooding from Surface Water - Flow Direction

Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) map is an assessment of where surface water flooding may occur when rainwater does not drain away through the normal drainage systems or soak into the ground, but lies on or flows over the ground instead. It is produced using national scale modelling and enhanced with compatible, locally produced modelling from lead local flood authorities (LLFAs). The RoFSW datasets include information about flooding extents, depths, speed and hazards.

This dataset shows information about flow direction. It shows the direction in which water will flow when the water is travelling at maximum speed during a flood.

There are separate layers for each of the following likelihoods of flooding:

3.3% chance in any given year (1 in 30);
1% (1 in 100) chance in any given year;
0.1% (1 in 1000) chance in any given year.
 Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Flood Risk Management, Natural risk zones, environment, inlandWaters, risk, surface waters
Organization: Environment Agency
Modelled Abstraction Reductions - National Framework for Water Resources 2025

Spreadsheet showing modelled range of potential reductions to abstraction licence quantities that may be needed to meet environmental flow requirements for each water body in England. These percentage reductions are based on national scale modelling, so they won’t be the final answer for each water body. The data can be used to help abstractors consider the scale of future change that may be needed for their abstraction licence. The data is a starting point for planning and doesn't confirm that any particular licence in an area needs to be reduced to protect the environment.


UPDATE: 
Version 1.2 created 10/9/25 to correct the 2080 Upper Values
Version 1.3 added with additional waterbodies Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Abstraction licence, environment, sustainable abstraction, water resources management
Organization: Environment Agency
National Framework for Water Resources: Drivers of future public water supply demands

The drivers of public water supply demands (e.g. the amount of water required for population, climate change, environmental improvements etc) from 2025 to 2055 under a range of National Framework water resource modelling scenarios (Do Nothing, Low, Central and High) at national, regional water resource groups and water company water resource zone scale Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Future Water, Water Resources, environment, inlandWaters, modelling
Organization: Environment Agency
National Framework for Water Resources: Amount of water that potential water resource options could provide

Amount of water (Ml/d) that potential water resource options could provide to solve the water needs problem at a national, regional water resource group and water company water resource zone scale in the 2050s under a range of National Framework modelling scenarios (Do Nothing, Low, Central and High) Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Future Water, Water Resources, environment, inlandWaters, modelling
Organization: Environment Agency
National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) - Key Summary Information

These documents provide analysis of the numbers of properties within areas at risk of coastal erosion taken from the National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 product. We use them in Environment Agency publications and reports; and to answer queries.

We use the National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 and the National Receptor Dataset (NRD) 2023 to provide a breakdown of numbers of properties at risk of erosion within England and local authorities. 

The spreadsheet provides the following summary information: 
• Number of residential and non-residential properties in areas at risk from coastal erosion  

Further explanations about the information presented in the spreadsheet such as the management and climate scenarios, timeframes covered by the assessment and how numbers are calculated are presented in the first tab of the spreadsheet. 

The raw values are presented and should be rounded to an appropriate level of precision for the geographical area you choose to use the data for. 

INFORMATION WARNINGS:

The data and associated information are intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties.

The data shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline.

The information is provided as best estimates based upon historic data termed ‘present day’ and, the higher central and upper end sea level rise climate change allowances representing UKCP18 RCP8.5 sea level rise projections. Unlike the previous NCERM, data ranges based on percentiles are not provided.

The NCERM information considers the predominant risk at the coast, although flooding and erosion processes are often linked, and data on erosion of foreshore features are, in general, not included.

Some parts of the coast have complex geology causing ground instability. Unlike the previous NCERM, data on these zones of ground instability are provided. More detailed information on these areas may be available from local authorities Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Coastal, Coastal erosion, Ground Instability, Natural risk zones, Shoreline Management Plan, environment
Organization: Environment Agency
National Framework for Water Resources: Water company WRMP24 final plan demand and preferred water resource options and the amount of water they provide

A nationally collated list of final plan distribution input (demand) and new supply and transfer options and the amount of water (Ml/d) they provide, that water companies have put forward in their preferred WRMP to solve their WRMP24 water needs problem at 2050 at water company water resource zone scale Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. 

Tags: Future Water, Water Resources, environment, inlandWaters, modelling
Organization: Environment Agency
LIDAR DSM Time Stamped Tiles

The LIDAR DSM (Digital Surface Model) Time Stamped Tiles product is an archive of raster elevation data produced by the Environment Agency. Site specific surveys have been carried out across England since 1998, with certain areas, such as the coastal zone, being surveyed multiple times. Data is available at varying resolutions of 25cm, 50cm, 1m and 2m, depending on project requirements. 

The DSM (Digital Surface Model) is produced from the last return LIDAR signal and includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface.  

Available to download as Geotiff rasters in 5km zips, data is presented in metres, referenced to Ordinance Survey Newlyn and data aligned to the OS Grid. All LIDAR data has a vertical accuracy of +/-15cm RMSE.  The transformation used on the data is specific to the time period of survey. 

Please refer to the metadata index catalogue which show, for any location, what time stamped data is available, the specific dates of survey, resolution of product and what transformation and geoidal model used.  Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

Tags: Eleavation, GIS digital format, LIDAR, elevation, environment, flood, mapping, remote sensing
Organization: Environment Agency
Event Duration Monitoring - Storm Overflows - Annual Returns

This Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) dataset relates to the performance of storm overflows in England. Data are provided by Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) to the Environment Agency each year as part of their regulatory Annual Return, to fulfil their permitted conditions to discharge from these storm overflows under the Environmental Permitting Regulations.

Data files are provided by year (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 & 2020) and include a sheet for each of the 10 WaSCs with storm overflows in England. Each WaSC sheet shows how often and how long each monitored storm overflow discharged during that year. From 2021 onwards the dataset also includes reasons why event duration monitors (EDM) may have provided information for <90% of the relevant return period, and why an overflow may have high spill counts in that period. These data reflect the best available information held by the WaSCs at time of submission.

The data file for each year also contains key summary data tables. These include: number of storm overflows with EDM, number of storm overflows returning spill counts, average spill duration and average spill count for each WaSC. A dataset README guide is also provided which provides further information to help use and understand the data.

A sixth data file contains the annual key summary data from respective years plus a table showing long-term trends from 2016-2025.

NOTE - the 2025 data spreadsheets were re-uploaded on 27/03/26 to correct a minor formatting issue that affected the way spill duration figures were displayed for a small number of sites in the raw EDM Annual Return data. The data is accurate — this was purely a format display issue and has been resolved. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Tags: EDM, Event Duration Monitoring, Storm Overflow, environment, sewerage system
Organization: Environment Agency
Spend over £25,000 in Isle of Wight NHS Trust

A monthly updated list of all financial transactions spending over £25,000 made by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, as part of the Governments commitment to transparency in expenditure. Also see the Trusts expenditure at https://www.iow.nhs.uk/about-us/our-finances in both CSV and PDF formats.

Organization: Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Environmental Pollution Incidents (Category 1 and 2)

Environmental Pollution Incident data filtered for Categories 1 and 2. Details of environmental incidents within the remit of the Environment Agency are held on the National Incident Recording System (NIRS2).  This dataset only includes substantiated completed and closed Environment Management incidents (predominantly pollution), where the environment impact level is either category 1 (major) or category 2 (significant) to at least 1 media (i.e. water, land or air). It is updated quarterly and provides a snapshot of data held in NIRS2.  There is an inherent lag time in investigating and recording the necessary incident details to complete a record and recent incidents may not appear.  The data may also be subject to change due to final QA and as further information becomes available.
INFORMATION WARNING:
Where these data indicate an incident occurred on a particular site or property no inference should be drawn that the site or property owner necessarily was responsible. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved.

Tags: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, incident, inlandWaters, pollution, pollution incidents
Organization: Environment Agency
Environmental Permitting Regulations - Industrial Sites

The Environmental Permitting Regulations amongst other things implement the IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive (EC/61/96) in England and Wales. Facilities covered by this legislation are known as Installations and generally have significant releases to air land or water or carry out certain larger scale waste management activities.  Further information on the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) and the IPPC directive is available on our website or at www.defra.gov.uk 
This dataset covers all Process Industry sites within the EPR regime and some larger waste activities. Other smaller waste facilities are known as 'Waste Operations' (formerly known as Waste Management Licences) and are covered in a separate dataset see below. Other related datasets that are available are: 
- Environmental Permitting Regulations 
- Waste Sites- Authorised Treatment Facilities (End of Life Vehicles)
- Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2021. All rights reserved.

Tags: Industry sites, PPC, environment, installations
Organization: Environment Agency
Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)

Drinking Water Groundwater Safeguard Zones (SgZs) are established around public water supplies where additional pollution control measures are needed.  The Water Framework Directive requires that Drinking Water Protected Areas are identified (WFD Article 7.1) and that they are given the necessary protection (WFD Article 7.3) with the aim of avoiding deterioration in their quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required in the production of drinking water.

The geometry of Groundwater Safeguard Zones are based on Groundwater Source Protection Zones (SPZs)*, usually the SPZ 2, and use additional assessment to identify areas, which may or may not coincide with the SPZ, where additional measures are required to ensure that abstraction waters meet Article 7.3 of the WFD. SgZs can be large or small depending on the pollution problem and may not cover the whole of a catchment or sub-catchment. 

*AfA029 Source Protection Zones [Merged] is available. Attribution statement: Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database rights.
Derived from BGS digital data under licence from British Geological Survey copyright NERC.

Tags: Safeguard zone, drinking water, environment, groundwater, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters
Organization: Environment Agency