EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Status of Bathing Water
Short description
The dataset on the status of bathing waters in the European seas was created in 2015 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is based on data from (i) the 'Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2022' provided by The European Topic Centre on Water and made available by the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the EU countries, Albania and Switzerland, (ii) the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs of the Environment Agency for the England, (iii) the Gibraltar Environmental Agency, (iv) the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs for the Northern Ireland, (v) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for the Scotland, (vi) the Natural Resources Wales Government Sponsored Body. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The EU Bathing Water Directive requires Member States to identify popular bathing places in fresh and coastal waters and monitor them for indicators of microbiological pollution (and other substances) throughout the bathing season which runs from May to September. More information are available at https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/787. The dataset presents information on bathing water identifier and name, county code and name, latitude and longitude of sites, specialized zone type (coastal, lake, river, transitional), link to the national sources website, bathing water quality status (0 - Not classified, 1 - Excellent, 2 - Good, 3 - Good or Sufficient, 3 - Sufficient, 4 - Poor, Closed, Insufficiently Sampled), year (1990-2022, where avialable). Only coastal and transitional bathing waters are shown on the viewer, while the dataset also contains lake and river ones. Geographic coverage: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (England, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales). Classifications were not made for some of the UK sites for the 2020 season due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sampling programme. Compared with the previous version, the dataset has been updated according to the latest version published by the resource providers in the 2023 for the 2022 bathing water season.
Point of contact
Cogea srl
luigi.falco@bip-group.com
Resource constraints
Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website.
Spatial extent
['-63.1471099999999', '55.7478400000001', '-21.3806', '66.7145']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Tourism ; GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021 ;

Water ; GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021 ;

bathing water ; bathing seawater ; water analysis ; water monitoring ; water pollution ; water protection area ; water quality management ; recreational area ; mass recreation ; GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021 ;

Metadata GDI-Vl-conform ;

Resource provider(s)
Cogea srl
luigi.falco@bip-group.com

European Environment Agency (EEA)
eea.enquiries@eea.europa.eu

Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), European Environment Agency (EEA)
eea.enquiries@eea.europa.eu

UK England - Environment Agency, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

UK Gibraltar - Environmental Agency Gibraltar
admin@eag.gi

UK Northern Ireland - Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs
data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk

UK Scotland - Scottish Environment Protection Agency
https://www2.sepa.org.uk/contactus

UK Wales - Natural Resources Wales
enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Lineage
Data were retrived from different sources. Validation and quality assurance remain up to primary data sources, while harmonization is carried out by Cogea. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered very reliable, because they come from national sources officially in charge for their collection. The harmonisation process consisted of identifying a set of attributes common to all the different datasets, thus creating a single data model. The dataset is originally provided as a set of spreadsheet files. We loaded each single file into a GDB point feature class georeferencing the bathing water sites. In the original data model, there is a separate field for each year of monitoring reporting bathing water status. In the EMODnet data table a 'Year' field has been created where years are available as attributes. Bathing water status is reported in the 'Status' field. A relationship class links the points vector data with the data attribute table.