Wastewater Treatment in England: Agglomerations, Plants, and Discharge Points

Data reported by water companies under the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994, which implement the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC). The dataset includes tables on agglomerations, treatment plants, discharge points, receiving areas, sludge handling, and treated wastewater reuse, fulfilling a statutory requirement for compliance assessment. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing regulatory compliance for urban wastewater treatment plants based on reported agglomeration data.
• Analyzing sludge handling and disposal practices across different water companies.
• Mapping discharge points and their associated receiving areas for environmental impact studies.
• Evaluating trends in treated wastewater reuse for resource efficiency analysis.

Strengths

• Data is collected under a specific statutory framework (Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations), ensuring a consistent reporting mandate.
• Covers multiple interrelated facets of wastewater management, including plants, discharges, and sludge.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Mandatory reporting by water companies under the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

England