WFD Cycle 1 2015 Water Quality Improvements in England

Environment Agency data contains Cycle 1 Water Framework Directive class improvements at the water body level for England in 2015. The dataset assesses upgrades in class status against a 2009 baseline and includes statistical confidence and derived certainty metrics for each improvement. This record has been retired and superseded by a newer version.

Use Cases

• Assessing water body status improvements based on class upgrades from 2009 to 2015.
• Evaluating the statistical confidence of reported water quality changes.
• Monitoring regulatory compliance progress for the Water Framework Directive in England.

Strengths

• Includes statistical confidence and derived certainty metrics for each reported improvement.
• Provides a defined temporal comparison between the 2015 status and a 2009 baseline.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• This dataset has been retired and superseded by a newer record.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Time Range

2015, compared to a 2009 baseline.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:53.405992; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England