AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Historic River Quality Objectives

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA164. The River Quality Objectives (RQO) classification was used for planning water quality improvements until 2006 when the scheme ended. RQOs were assigned to all significantly sized rivers (based on river flow). RQOs were based on the River Ecosystem (RE) Classification Scheme which was introduced in 1994 to replace the National Water Council's methodology. The RE system consists of five classes (1-5) based on the same determinands used in the General Quality Assessment (GQA) chemistry assessment of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), ammonia and dissolved oxygen but also includes the additional determinands of (free (or un-ionised) ammonia, pH, hardness, dissolved copper and total zinc) that reflect the requirements of a river ecosystem.
Chemical samples were taken 12 times a year. Any river quality failures, their reasons and actions to be taken, were stored in separate tables.
The national RQO classification scheme ceased at the end of 2006, it is now a fixed table which will not be updated. RQO compliance figures are available for 1997-2006. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, inlandWaters, water analysis, water pollution, water quality
Organization: Environment Agency
Modelled fluvial flood depth and climate change depth difference data created 2004: 1  percent annual chance for grid reference NT

The depth difference dataset (2004) is a depth grid showing the difference between modelled fluvial flood depths and modelled fluvial flood depths under climate change conditions (an increase in peak flows of 20%). 
Modelled fluvial flood depth and climate change depth difference data* was created for both the 1% annual chance of flooding situations and was produced as a by-product from the 2004 generalised modelling project. The purpose of the generalised modelling project was to fill the gaps where there was no detailed local modelled data in 2004, in order to define the extents of Flood Zones for spatial planning.
A two-dimensional hydrodynamic model called JFlow was used to produce both the modelled fluvial flood depth and modelled fluvial flood depth with climate change data. This depth difference data, using these 2 datasets, is provided on a 5x5m grid.
Since 2004, some local detailed modelling projects have included scenarios for climate change however this depth difference dataset has not been updated.
INFORMATION WARNING: This data is not suitable for identifying whether an individual property will flood due to climate change, for detailed decision making or for use in site specific Flood Risk or Strategic Flood Risk Assessments. Where this data is used further evidence, verification and studies should be undertaken. Climate change allowances have changed since this work was completed in 2004.
More recent, accurate and local detailed modelling depth data with climate change is available for some places. Please contact your local Environment Agency office to see if detailed modelling is available for your area of interest. 
This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA480 2004 1 in 100 Fluvial Depth Grid Climate Change Difference
Modelled fluvial flood depth data with climate change are available for the whole of England, however this data is for the 100x100km squared Ordnance Survey National Grid reference NT. If you are interested in data for another grid reference refer to this Ordnance Survey National Grid document to find the relevant referencing code and search on Data.gov.uk again to download the data. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © NERC (CEH). Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown Copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.  Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2015. Land & Property Services © Crown copyright and database right.

Tags: environment, flood, flooding, risk assessment
Organization: Environment Agency
Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - phosphate GQA grades 2010 (Wales)

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA163.4 'Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - phosphate GQA grades 2010 (Wales)'. The General Quality Assessment Headline Indicator scheme (GQAHI) was the Environment Agency's national method for creating a water quality indicator based on rivers and canals in England. This was a reduced network compared to the original GQA network used in England from 1990 to 2006. The Nutrients GQAHI scheme had over 3000 sampling sites which provide information for approximately 22500 km of watercourses. In Wales we maintained the full GQA network until 2010 based on 800 sampling sites which provided information for approximately 4700km.
The GQAHI/GQA scheme was designed to provide an accurate and consistent assessment of the state of water quality and how it changes over time. The Nutrients GQA described quality in terms of two nutrients: nitrates (mg NO3 /l) and phosphates (mg P/l) and graded from 1 to 6. Grades were allocated for both phosphate and nitrate; they were not combined into a single nutrients grade. There were no set 'good' or 'bad' concentrations for nutrients in rivers in the way that we describe chemical and biological quality. Rivers in different parts of the country have naturally different concentrations of nutrients. ‘Very low’ nutrient concentrations, for example, are not necessarily good or bad; the classifications merely stated that concentrations in this river were very low relative to other rivers.
Classification for phosphate: Grade limit (mgP/l) Average Description
<0.02	        Very low
>0.02 to 0.06	Low
>0.06 to 0.1	Moderate
>0.1 to 0.2	High
>0.2 to 1.0	Very high
>1.0	                Excessively high
Classification for nitrate
Grade limit (mg NO3/l) Average Description
<5	                Very low
>5 to 10          Low
>10 to 20	Moderately low
>20 to30	        Moderate
>30 to 40	High
>40	                Very high
2009 is the final year of the scheme. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, inlandWaters, monitoring data, monitoring technique, water quality
Organization: Environment Agency
Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - phosphate GQA grades 2009 (England)

GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - phosphate GQA grades 2009 (England)'. The General Quality Assessment Headline Indicator scheme (GQAHI) was the Environment Agency's national method for creating a water quality indicator based on rivers and canals in England. This was a reduced network compared to the original GQA network used in England from 1990 to 2006. The Nutrients GQAHI scheme had over 3000 sampling sites which provide information for approximately 22500 km of watercourses. In Wales we maintained the full GQA network until 2010 based on 800 sampling sites which provided information for approximately 4700km.
The GQAHI/GQA scheme was designed to provide an accurate and consistent assessment of the state of water quality and how it changes over time. The Nutrients GQA described quality in terms of two nutrients: nitrates (mg NO3 /l) and phosphates (mg P/l) and graded from 1 to 6. Grades were allocated for both phosphate and nitrate; they were not combined into a single nutrients grade. There were no set 'good' or 'bad' concentrations for nutrients in rivers in the way that we describe chemical and biological quality. Rivers in different parts of the country have naturally different concentrations of nutrients. ‘Very low’ nutrient concentrations, for example, are not necessarily good or bad; the classifications merely stated that concentrations in this river were very low relative to other rivers.  
Classification for phosphate: Grade limit (mgP/l) Average Description
<0.02	        Very low
>0.02 to 0.06	Low
>0.06 to 0.1	Moderate
>0.1 to 0.2	High
>0.2 to 1.0	Very high
>1.0	                Excessively high
Classification for nitrate
Grade limit (mg NO3/l) Average Description
<5	                Very low
>5 to 10          Low
>10 to 20	Moderately low
>20 to30	        Moderate
>30 to 40	High
>40	                Very high
2009 is the final year of the scheme. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved

Tags: environment, inlandWaters, monitoring data, monitoring technique, water quality
Organization: Environment Agency
Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - nitrate GQA grades 2010 (Wales)

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA163.2 'Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - nitrate GQA grades 2010 (Wales)'. The General Quality Assessment Headline Indicator scheme (GQAHI) was the Environment Agency's national method for creating a water quality indicator based on rivers and canals in England. This was a reduced network compared to the original GQA network used in England from 1990 to 2006. The Nutrients GQAHI scheme had over 3000 sampling sites which provide information for approximately 22500 km of watercourses. In Wales we maintained the full GQA network until 2010 based on 800 sampling sites which provided information for approximately 4700km.
The GQAHI/GQA scheme was designed to provide an accurate and consistent assessment of the state of water quality and how it changes over time. The Nutrients GQA described quality in terms of two nutrients: nitrates (mg NO3 /l) and phosphates (mg P/l) and graded from 1 to 6. Grades were allocated for both phosphate and nitrate; they were not combined into a single nutrients grade. There were no set 'good' or 'bad' concentrations for nutrients in rivers in the way that we describe chemical and biological quality. Rivers in different parts of the country have naturally different concentrations of nutrients. ‘Very low’ nutrient concentrations, for example, are not necessarily good or bad; the classifications merely stated that concentrations in this river were very low relative to other rivers.  Classification for phosphate
Grade limit (mgP/l) Average Description
<0.02	        Very low
>0.02 to 0.06	Low
>0.06 to 0.1	Moderate
>0.1 to 0.2	High
>0.2 to 1.0	Very high
>1.0	                Excessively high
Classification for nitrate
Grade limit (mg NO3/l) Average Description
<5	                Very low
>5 to 10	        Low
>10 to 20	Moderately low
>20 to30	        Moderate
>30 to 40 	High
>40	                Very high
2009 is the final year of the scheme. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, inlandWaters, monitoring data, monitoring technique, water quality
Organization: Environment Agency
Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - NITRATE GQA GRADES 2009 (ENGLAND)

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA163.1 'Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Nutrients - nitrate GQA grades 2009 (England)'. The General Quality Assessment Headline Indicator scheme (GQAHI) was the Environment Agency's national method for creating a water quality indicator based on rivers and canals in England. This was a reduced network compared to the original GQA network used in England from 1990 to 2006. The Nutrients GQAHI scheme had over 3000 sampling sites which provide information for approximately 22500 km of watercourses. In Wales we maintained the full GQA network until 2010 based on 800 sampling sites which provided information for approximately 4700km.
The GQAHI/GQA scheme was designed to provide an accurate and consistent assessment of the state of water quality and how it changes over time. The Nutrients GQA described quality in terms of two nutrients: nitrates (mg NO3 /l) and phosphates (mg P/l) and graded from 1 to 6. Grades were allocated for both phosphate and nitrate; they were not combined into a single nutrients grade. There were no set 'good' or 'bad' concentrations for nutrients in rivers in the way that we describe chemical and biological quality. Rivers in different parts of the country have naturally different concentrations of nutrients. ‘Very low’ nutrient concentrations, for example, are not necessarily good or bad; the classifications merely stated that concentrations in this river were very low relative to other rivers.
Classification for phosphate
Grade limit (mgP/l) Average Description:
<0.02	        Very low
>0.02 to 0.06	Low
>0.06 to 0.1	Moderate
>0.1 to 0.2	High
>0.2 to 1.0	Very high
>1.0	                Excessively high
Classification for nitrate
Grade limit (mg NO3/l) Average Description:
<5	                Very low
>5 to 10	        Low
>10 to 20	Moderately low
>20 to30	        Moderate
>30 to 40	High
>40	                Very high

2009 is the final year of the scheme. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, inlandWaters, monitoring data, monitoring technique, water quality
Organization: Environment Agency
Health, Safety and wellbeing actions issued

Health safety and wellbeing actions issued through a system called Safeguard . These actions are created and issued based on health and safety incidents, to highlight changes to internal documentation, as a result of equipment issues. They are labelled Red, Amber or Green depending on their importance and urgency. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, health, health safety wellebing action safeguard
Organization: Environment Agency
Health Safety Third Party Incidents March 2000 to May 2012

Data from incidents that have resulted in injuries to third parties - i.e. members of the public and contractors working on behalf of the Environment Agency during the period from March 2000 to May 2012. This is the complete near miss data set from our first reporting system and will not be updated. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Tags: contractor third party injury incident accident, environment, health
Organization: Environment Agency
Groundwater Vulnerability Maps (2017) on MAGIC

This dataset is available for use for non-commercial purposes only on request as AfA248 dataset Groundwater Vulnerability Maps (2017). For commercial use please contact the British Geological Survey.

 The Groundwater Vulnerability Maps show the vulnerability of groundwater to a pollutant discharged at ground level based on the hydrological, geological, hydrogeological and soil properties within a single square kilometre.
The 2017 publication has updated the groundwater vulnerability maps to reflect improvements in data mapping, modelling capability and understanding of the factors affecting vulnerability
Two map products are available:
• The combined groundwater vulnerability map. This product is designed for technical specialists due to the complex nature of the legend which displays groundwater vulnerability (High, Medium, Low), the type of aquifer (bedrock and/or superficial) and aquifer designation status (Principal, Secondary, Unproductive). These maps require that the user is able to understand the vulnerability assessment and interpret the individual components of the legend.

• The simplified groundwater vulnerability map. This was developed for non-specialists who need to know the overall risk to groundwater but do not have extensive hydrogeological knowledge or the time to interpret the underlying data. The map has five risk categories (High, Medium-High, Medium, Medium-Low and Low) based on the likelihood of a pollutant reaching the groundwater (i.e. the vulnerability), the types of aquifer present and the potential impact (i.e. the aquifer designation status).
The two maps also identify areas where solution features that enable rapid movement of a pollutant may be present (identified as stippled areas) and areas where additional local information affecting vulnerability is held by the Environment Agency (identified as dashed areas). Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved.Derived from 1:50k scale BGS Digital Data under Licence 2011/057 British Geological Survey. © NERC.

Tags: environment, groundwater
Organization: Environment Agency
Freshwater river diatom surveys (Biosys)

The Environment Agency undertakes freshwater and marine biological monitoring in England. 

This dataset contains site, sample, metric and taxa information from freshwater river diatom (algae) surveys carried out across England from 1993 onwards.

Notes: 

- These survey data are stored in an archive more commonly known as BIOSYS. 
- This dataset contains Freshwater, River diatom surveys only.
- Pollution Samples are excluded from the dataset.
- The TDI4 calculations in this dataset were updated in 2017 to correct errors discovered in 2016. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: Algae, Biosys, Diatoms, biology, biota, ecology, environment, freshwater monitoring, inlandWaters, river
Organization: Environment Agency
Freshwater fish surveys (NFPD)

The Environment Agency undertakes fisheries monitoring work on rivers, lakes and transitional and coastal waters (TraC). 

This dataset contains site and survey information, the numbers and species of fish caught, fish lengths, weights and ages (where available), for all the freshwater fish surveys carried out across England from 1975 onwards.

Notes: 
- These survey data are stored in an archive more commonly known as the NFPD (National Fish Populations Database). 
- This dataset contains Freshwater fish surveys only.
- Third party data held on the NFPD are excluded from the dataset.
- Some historic surveys (particularly in Anglian Central) have incorrect survey lengths and survey widths. These can be identified by a survey length of 1 and a survey width that is equal to the area.  The survey areas are correct. This is due to the migration of old historic data from previous databases into the NFPD.
- Approved for Access under AfA347.

Please see the Dataset Documentation for further detail. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: Carle and strub, Fish ages, Fish distribution, Fish lengths, Fish population, Fish species, Fish survey data, Freshwater fish, Population estimates, biota, environment, fisheries management, inlandWaters
Organization: Environment Agency
Emissions Inventory for River Basin Management Plans

The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive (WFD)) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017 (referred to as WFD Regulations) provide a framework for managing the water environment in England.  
Under the WFD Regulations, a River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) must be developed for each River Basin District (RBD) and reviewed and updated every six years. These plans were first published in December 2009, and last updated in February 2016. As part of the 3 cycle RBMPs we are to report an inventory of emissions and discharges of all priority substances.

Better understanding of the sources of priority substances and the ways in which pollution occurs will help to target measures to phase-out emissions or reduce pollution of the most relevant chemicals, and avoids wasted effort on chemicals of little or no relevance.

The Environment Agency has updated the Emissions Inventory using 2018 as the baseline year. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Tags: Emissions, RBMPs, environment, inventory
Organization: Environment Agency
Discharges to rivers from abandoned metal mines

Information about average flows and water quality for known mine water discharges from abandoned metal mines in England. Adapted and updated from "Prioritisation of abandoned non-coal mine impacts on the environment: The national picture." published by the Environment Agency in 2012 (available from gov.uk).
Data are known to be incomplete. Blank values mean less than detection limit or not measured.
Data supplied are average values for flows (l/s), pH, metal concentrations (mg/l) and metal flux (kg/yr).
Metals/metalloids included: Arsenic (As), Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn). Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment, freshwater pollution, heavy metal
Organization: Environment Agency
Corporate Scorecard Pack

Our corporate scorecard shows a high level overview of our performance against our environmental and business aims.

The scorecard is reported every 3 months to executive directors, the board, Defra, and is made public on GOV.UK.

Targets are set for each of these measures. For each measure, we show how we’re currently performing and whether or not we’re on track to achieve our target performance by the end of the year. Each measure has a more detailed ‘insight report’ that tells the story of how we’re performing as well as showing trends and future forecasts. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved.

Tags: CSC, Corporate Scorecard, environment
Organization: Environment Agency
Coastal Overview Legislation [Eng only]

Coastal Legislative Layer [Polyline]. The Coastal Overview data layers identifies the lead authority for the management of discrete stretches of the English coast as defined by the Seaward of the Schedule 4 boundary of the Coastal Protection Act 1949. The data are intended as a reference for GIS users and Coastal Engineers with GIS capability to identify the responsible authority or whether the coast is privately owned.
The information has been assigned from the following sources, listed in by preference:
Shoreline Management Plans 1.
Environment Agency’s RACE database.
Consultation with Coastal Business User Group and Local Authority Maritime records where possible.
A confidence rating is attributed based on where the data has been attributed from and the entry derived from the source data.
The following data is intended as a reference document for GIS users and Coastal Engineers with GIS capability to identify the responsible authority and the assigned EA Coastal Engineer so as to effectively manage the coast for erosion and flooding.
The product comprises 3 GIS layers that are based on the OS MasterMap Mean High Watermark, this layers is: Coastal Legislative Layer [Polyline] (AfA139-3) represents the predominant risk; flooding or erosion, which are assigned to each section of the coastline. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.  © Crown copyright and database rights 2009 Ordnance Survey 100024198

Tags: coastal environment, coastal erosion, environment, erosion, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Organization: Environment Agency