WFD Catchment Management Information England: River Basin Districts and Catchments Cycle 2

Water Framework Directive management units for England, including River Basin Districts, Management Catchments, and Operational Catchments. The dataset provides water body classifications, targets, reasons for failure, and remedial actions for integrated catchment management. Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020.

Use Cases

• Mapping water management units based on described River Basin Districts and Catchments.
• Analyzing water body status trends based on classification data for various years.
• Identifying causes of environmental failure based on the documented Reasons for Failure.
• Planning remedial measures based on the described Actions and Measures with associated costs.

Strengths

• Includes cross-border data for sites in Wales that extend into England.
• Covers multiple integrated management components: districts, catchments, water bodies, classifications, targets, investigations, and actions.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and superseded by another record, indicating it is not the current version.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Time Range

Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:35.875666; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, with some cross-border sites in Wales