Alternate title

INSPIRE Water Monitoring Stations registered with EPA

Date (Creation)

1971-10-01

Date (Revision)

2024-09-10

Date (Publication)

2012-06-11

Citation identifier

EPA / EF.IE.EPA.WFD_MonitoringStations

Citation identifier

EPA / EF.EnvironmentalMonitoringFacilities

Purpose

Monitoring and water quality management for the EU Water Framework Directive.

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental monitoring facilities

INSPIRE priority data set

• Monitoring stations (Water Framework Directive)

Spatial scope

• National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• water

• biology

• environmental policy

Environmental Protection Agency

• water monitoring stations

• monitoring stations

• river stations

• rivers

• biology

• lakes

• groundwater

• transitional

• coastal

• monitoring

Place

• Ireland

Specific usage

Environmental monitoring facilities INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	User

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions to access and use

Other constraints

CC BY 4.0

Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Station points are located at bridges, with the OSI Discovery Series 1:50,000 maps used as the source. The station is generally positioned in the centre of the bridge as shown on the map; the actual sample access point may be either side of the bridge. In 2010 a data quality project was run to capture all station locations accurately. Where the co-ordinates did not map on a river the station location information was used to place the station at the correct location. Station numbers get larger downstream so station locations occur in the correct order upstream and downstream but for stations that have not been visited in a long time this location may not always be the exact point where the sample was taken.

Metadata

File identifier

f0f98428-746a-4b68-9702-7cfd5f0067e9 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-09-20T00:00:00

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact