Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations Sensitive Areas for Bathing Waters in Wales

The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (UWWTR) Sensitive Areas - Bathing Waters dataset is a geospatial layer showing areas designated as nutrient-sensitive for bathing waters under the UWWTR. This dataset, provided by the Government Digital Service, replaces previous Welsh-only designations under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. It is used to identify water bodies requiring more stringent wastewater treatment to meet Bathing Waters Directive standards.

Use Cases

• Mapping nutrient-sensitive zones for bathing water protection based on the described regulatory designations.
• Analyzing spatial overlap between wastewater treatment requirements and recreational water areas.
• Supporting regulatory compliance assessments for the Urban Wastewater Treatment and Bathing Waters Directives.

Strengths

• Dataset is derived from official regulatory designations by Defra, providing legal authority.
• Focuses specifically on nutrient-sensitive areas for bathing waters, a defined environmental subset.

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; data freshness is unverified.
• Geographic coverage appears limited to Wales based on the description of replacing 'Welsh only sites'.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Regulatory designation under the Urban Wastewater Treatment regulations 1994.

Time Range

Temporal coverage, or null.

Freshness

Update frequency or recency, or null.

Geography

Wales, United Kingdom