WFD Cycle 1 2016 Improvements: Water Body Class Changes in England

Environment Agency data from 2017 contains Cycle 1 Water Framework Directive (WFD) class improvements at the water body level for England in 2016. The dataset assesses improvements by detecting upgrades in class status against a 2009 baseline and includes statistical confidence and derived certainty estimates for each change. This record has been retired and superseded by a newer version.

Use Cases

• Assessing water quality improvement trends based on class upgrades from 2009 to 2016.
• Evaluating the statistical confidence of environmental status changes for regulatory reporting.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of water body improvements across England.

Strengths

• Includes statistical confidence and derived certainty metrics for each improvement assessment.
• Provides a clear baseline comparison by assessing changes against the 2009 status.

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• Dataset is retired and superseded, indicating it is not the current version.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

Collection Method

Improvements assessed by detecting upgrades in class status in 2016 against the baseline status of 2009.

Time Range

2016 (compared to 2009 baseline)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-17 15:07:57.224264; freshness should be verified as the dataset is retired.

Geography

England