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SEPA Water Monitoring sites

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Dataset of 5350 water monitoring sites in Scotland measured by SEPA for a variety of purposes. The dataset consists of site locations in British National Grid or Lat/Long WGS84, describing aspects of each site and the monitoring activity including: medium (14 including river, loch, marine, estuary and groundwater; water, biota and morphology); purpose of the monitoring (50 including WFD, Bathing Waters Directive, Effluent screening, Agricultural impacts); analytic function (30 including organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, metals chemistry, marine biology, microbiology, invertebrates, algae, phytoplankton and zooplankton), and approximate annual frequency of the monitoring.

Monitoring data itself can be requested from SEPA.
Publication date: 2014-05-09

Format

Shapefile

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Spatial reference systems
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
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Provenance & quality

Unknown

Other contacts

Resource provider
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
 datarequests@sepa.org.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
environment
inlandWaters
oceans
Keywords
Geospatial / Map , National , Site Specific Data , Water Quality
Last updated
30 January 2017 14:44