WFD Cycle 1 2013 Improvements: Water Body Class Changes in England

England's water body class improvements for 2013, assessed under the Water Framework Directive. The dataset contains statistical confidence and derived certainty estimates for real improvements detected against a 2009 baseline. It was created by the Environment Agency and is now retired, superseded by a newer record.

Use Cases

• Assessing water quality improvement trends based on class upgrades from 2009 to 2013.
• Evaluating the statistical confidence of environmental status changes mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of water quality improvements across England's water bodies.

Strengths

• Includes statistical confidence and derived certainty metrics for each improvement assessment.
• Focuses on a specific regulatory cycle (Cycle 1) and year (2013) for England.

Limitations

• The dataset is retired and superseded, indicating it is not the current version.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Improvements assessed by detecting upgrades in class status in 2013 against the 2009 baseline.

Time Range

2013 (with baseline comparison to 2009)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:45.972596; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England