dataset · England

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water)

Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are catchment areas that influence the water quality for their respective Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water). They are identified where the protected area has been assigned as being "at risk" of failing the drinking water protection objectives of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017. Safeguard Zones are one of the main tools for delivering the drinking water protection objectives. These Safe

Source details

Licence: ["There are no public access constraints to this data.", "There are no public access constraints to this data."]

Evidence quality: 43.6

Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=a14ed787-0932-43cc-9e06-a8cacf13a2d5&fileName=Drinking_Water_Safeguard_Zones_Surface_Water.gdb.zip
• https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/6ac22521-2e77-4dc8-ba90-6bb55d2ea3b8/drinking-water-safeguard-zones-surface-water

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