dataset · England
Water bodies impacted by pollution from abandoned metal mines
List of water bodies (rivers) with significant failures of environmental quality standards for metals (cadmium, lead, nickel, copper, zinc and/or iron) caused by abandoned metal mines in England. These water bodies are divided into “impacted” and “probably impacted” depending on the significance of pollution; impacted water bodies are polluted all of the time, probably impacted means the pollution is not always significant at the water body scale. Each water body has been allocated a score based
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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=a6806ed3-a115-42b5-8212-95bef7056bbe&fileName=Water_bodies_impacted_by_pollution_from_abandoned_metal_mines.zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/0eb76e27-c799-4d8d-b601-addaba43bc86/water-bodies-impacted-by-pollution-from-abandoned-metal-mines1
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