Register of Private Water Supplies in Northern Ireland as of December 2019
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Description
A 2019 spatial dataset of private water supplies in Northern Ireland, required to be held by the Drinking Water Inspectorate. It consists of 100m by 100m polygons randomly placed around registered supplies to public, commercial, or multi-dwelling premises. The dataset was created by the Government Digital Service on 31 December 2019 and was superseded in April 2020.
Use Cases
Map private water supply locations based on the described spatial polygon layer.
Analyze regulatory coverage for supplies to commercial premises as mentioned in the description.
Visualize the distribution of historically monitored water supplies for dashboard creation.
Support compliance checks for supplies serving two or more dwellings as defined by the regulations.
Strengths
Data is explicitly tied to a legal requirement (The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017).
Includes both current and historically monitored supplies, providing a temporal dimension.
Available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, ESRI SHAPE, GEOJSON) for interoperability.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
The dataset is a snapshot from 2019 and was superseded in 2020, indicating it is not current.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service
Collection Method
Registry compiled by the Drinking Water Inspectorate as required by regulation.
Time Range
Snapshot as of 31 December 2019.
Freshness
Snapshot from 31 December 2019; superseded 24 April 2020.