dataset · United Kingdom
Bathing water quality
This series is an amalgamation of all the data sets relating to the Bathing Water quality. This includes the survey 2011 previously held on Data.Gov.UK (DGUK), thus consolidating all information in one location on DGUK. Data source is the Environment Agency (EA). The record includes the following datasets: The microbiological quality of bathing waters can be affected by pollution from agricultural and urban sources, discharges of sewage effluent, storm water overflows and river borne pathogens,
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Licence: UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Evidence quality: 50.5
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- bathing water compliance with EC Bathing Water Directive, mandatory coliform standards (5-year record) · bathing water compliance, other mandatory parameters (inland and coastal) · bathing water classification results, England 2018 · bathing water compliance by site and region (2010 to 2014 tables)
- Coverage llm-inferred
- United Kingdom (UK-wide and England-only tables) · 1988 to 2018 (varies by table)
- Formats docs-verified
- CSV · ODS · ODT · HTML
- Access docs-verified
- Free, open access with no authentication (ENTRY auth is null); licensed under UK Open Government Licence v3.0
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Bathing water compliance screening for coastal or riverside development sites in an EIA or planning baseline · Receiving-water context for outfall or combined sewer overflow impact assessments near designated bathing waters · Five-year coliform compliance trend reporting for water quality sections of environmental statements
- Audience llm-inferred
- environmental consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · planners · water quality scientists
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Dataset was last updated 21 November 2018, so recent years may be missing · Content is a collection of separate CSV, ODS and ODT tables with differing years and standards (76/160/EEC and 2006/7/EC), not one unified schema · No API, MCP server or programmatic access is described in the docs · Mixes UK-wide and England-only tables, so geographic coverage varies by file
Evidence
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/bathing-water-quality-statistics
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/0bc550c2-21c7-45c9-bf50-af37791527fd/bathing-waters-survey-2011
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.