River Water Quality Monitoring for Dissolved Iron in Northern Ireland, 1990-2018

Raw data from river monitoring sites in Northern Ireland, collected from 1990 to 2018, focusing on dissolved iron concentrations. The dataset is provided by OpenDataNI and is the first in a series of water quality datasets released as open data. It originates from Water Framework Directive monitoring but requires processing for status assessment due to its raw, unvalidated state.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in dissolved iron concentrations based on monitoring site data.
• Assessing raw water chemistry for specific pollutants as part of physico-chemical quality studies.
• Processing and cleaning raw environmental monitoring data for subsequent Water Framework Directive status calculations.

Strengths

• Covers a 28-year time span from 1990 to 2018.
• Includes data from Water Framework Directive monitoring sites.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, KML, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description explicitly states the data is raw, unprocessed, and may contain erroneous values from typos or contamination.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI, likely originating from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) or the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).

Collection Method

Raw measurements from river monitoring sites, including those for the Water Framework Directive.

Time Range

1990 to 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:22:22.868852; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland