- Association of Drainage Authorities (ADA): Administrative Boundaries - Internal Drainage Districts (IDD) in England
- Bathing Waters Explorer - what is the delay between taking a sea water sample and reporting on the explorer?
- Bathing Waters Explorer - why are some days blank on the scatter diagrams?
- Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with conditions - clarification of units
- Does the Environment Agency provide historic Flood Warning data by postcode or coordinates?
- Historic Flood Warnings
- Historic Landfill Sites - Quarterly Summary
- How can I access Ordnance Survey (OS) data through the Defra Data Services Platform (DSP)?
- How can I get a copy of the National Receptors Dataset (NRD)?
- How do I download Asset Management data and information as CSV?
- How do I download Spatial Data?
- How do I get a copy of the Aquifer Designation dataset?
- How do I get a copy of the Groundwater Vulnerability dataset?
- OS MasterMap Water Network - Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PGSA)
- Recorded Flood Outlines (RFO) - dates of Flood Events
- RICT Location Checker for Model 44 Input Variables
- Saltmarsh Extent - what is the time period of the map, as it would be useful to have the correct baseline period?
- What data is available on the Defra Data Services Platform (DSP)?
- Why aren't all the datasets available to download?
Bathing Waters Explorer - what is the delay between taking a sea water sample and reporting on the explorer?
Created: 05 October 2020 Updated: 09 September 2021
After a sample has been collected it is couriered to the laboratory for analysis by the next morning. The analysis is started within 24 hours of the sample being collected and takes a further 24 hours for preliminary results.
The data then requires a further 3 days of analysis for a confirmed result. These sample results are then loaded onto our internal databases where the data is validated.
This process, if validation passes, takes approximately 5 days after which they are transferred to the Bathing Water Explorer between 4-8 hours later. If the samples do not pass validation then this time can be greater.
You can access the Bathing Water Explorer here: https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/#