INSPIRE Geoportal
INSPIRE Water Framework Directive Groundwater Waterbodies
The EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection, improvement and management of surface water and groundwater.
All Groundwater Waterbodies (GWB) are represented as polygons. They are validated by scientists in the Geological Survey of Ireland and the EPA Scientists as meeting the criteria for a WFD GWB.
If a groundwater is capable of serving 10m³/day of abstraction, or has other significance, it is designated as a groundwater waterbody.
Simple
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE WFD Ground Waters
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-11-18
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-01-01
- Citation identifier
- EPA / AM.IE.EPA.WFD_GroundWaterbodies
- Citation identifier
- EPA / AM.WaterBodyForWFD
- Purpose
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To define the waterbodies to be designated and reported to the European Commission for WFD regulations.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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groundwater
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administrative boundary
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Environmental Protection Agency
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groundwater body
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wfd
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hydrography
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water quality monitoring
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groundwater
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- Place
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Ireland
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- Specific usage
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE
- User contact info
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
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
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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
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- Environment
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)
- Distribution format
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Name Version gml+xml 3.2
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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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
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-12-31
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Statement
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The EPA and Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) led a joint project to review the physical characteristics and produce updated groundwater waterbodies. The EPA instigated projects to assess and delineate groundwater waterbodies based on updated information about pressures and groundwater dependent wetlands in Ireland. The groundwater waterbody boundaries were updated based on this assessment.
Metadata
- File identifier
- f1c7d21a-aa91-4ba3-9893-b5a6c24c2295 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-20T00:00:00
- Metadata standard name
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
- Metadata standard version
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TG 2.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
