Bristol River Quality Biological Monitoring Data from 1995

Bristol City Council provides river quality monitoring data focusing on macroinvertebrates. The dataset originates from the uk_data platform and has been updated as recently as July 2026. It is licensed under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term trends in river health based on macroinvertebrate data mentioned in the description
• Training classifiers to predict water quality categories from biological monitoring records
• Conducting time-series analysis on environmental changes starting from 1995
• Building geospatial models of pollution or habitat quality for the Bristol area

Strengths

• Data collection started in 1995, providing a long-term perspective
• Published by a municipal authority (Bristol City Council), suggesting official provenance
• License is clearly stated as OGL-UK-3.0, which typically permits open use

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Bristol City Council

Collection Method

River quality monitoring, likely field sampling of macroinvertebrates

Time Range

Data from 1995 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:21.791111; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bristol, United Kingdom