WFD Cycle 1 2014 Maintained Status for England

2014 data from England's Environment Agency assessing unchanged water quality status against a 2009 baseline. It contains statistical confidence and derived certainty that a change in class has not occurred for water bodies. This dataset has been retired and superseded by a newer record.

Use Cases

• Assessing water body compliance based on unchanged class status against a 2009 baseline.
• Evaluating statistical confidence in water quality trends based on derived certainty metrics.
• Monitoring regulatory benchmarks for environmental reporting based on WFD quality elements.

Strengths

• Provides statistical confidence and derived certainty metrics for status changes.
• Focuses on a specific regulatory framework (Water Framework Directive) for England in 2014.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and superseded by a newer record, indicating it is outdated.
• 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

Time Range

2014, with baseline comparison to 2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:50.946614; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England