WFD Reasons for Not Achieving Good (Cycle 3)

Officers from the Environment Agency identify the main reasons why a water body is failing to achieve good or high status under the Water Framework Directive. This is a useful expert opinion and helps us to identify the likely issues affecting water quality across the catchment, so that we can target more effective interventions that will help a failing water body to reach healthy status. This data supports and builds upon the data in the river basin management plans. River basin management plans (RBMPs) set out how organisations, stakeholders and communities will work together to improve the water environment. This data was extracted from the Catchment Data Explorer in July 2024 and re-published by The Rivers Trust in ArcGIS online. The data have been enriched with CaBA catchment identifiers for filtering and analysis. Further information is available at environment.data.gov.uk.