Northern Ireland wastewater treatment works compliance data for reported calendar years. The dataset contains analytical results used to assess annual compliance against Water Order Consent and Urban Wastewater Treatment Regulations. Results are accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Scheme (UKAS) under ISO/IEC 17025 standards.
Use Cases
- Assessing annual compliance of wastewater treatment works based on reported effluent parameters.
- Analyzing trends in consent limit failures for parameters like Total Nitrogen or Total Phosphorous.
- Mapping discharge locations and their environmental context using Local Council Area and receiving Waterbody Name.
- Evaluating the performance of treatment processes based on flagged results that pass by percentage reduction.
Strengths
- Data is accredited by UKAS under ISO/IEC 17025 quality requirements for sampling, analysis, and reporting.
- Includes detailed compliance assessment flags for each parameter result, specifying which consent limit was failed.
- Provides geographic context with discharge locations identified by Local Council Area, Catchment Management Group, and Waterbody Name.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenDataNI
- Collection Method
- Sampling, transportation, analysis, and reporting of wastewater regulatory results.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-13 18:00:18.502239; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Northern Ireland