WFD Cycle 1 2013 Maintained Status: Water Body Classifications for England

England's water body statuses for 2013, assessed under the Water Framework Directive. The dataset contains unchanged class status against a 2009 baseline, along with statistical confidence and derived certainty estimates for the lack of change. It was created by the Environment Agency and is now retired, superseded by a newer record.

Use Cases

• Assessing compliance with Water Framework Directive objectives based on water body status classifications.
• Analyzing trends in water quality by comparing 2013 statuses against the 2009 baseline.
• Evaluating the statistical confidence in environmental monitoring data for regulatory reporting.
• Identifying water bodies where a change in quality class was not detected with high certainty.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot (2013) against a defined baseline (2009).
• Includes derived metrics for statistical confidence and certainty in status assessments.
• Authored by the authoritative Environment Agency for England.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and superseded, indicating it is not the current version.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Time Range

2013 (compared to 2009 baseline)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:47.241932; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England