Category 3 and 4 Minor Water Environmental Pollution Incidents summary 2020 to 2023

Summary of category 3 water pollution incidents reported to the Environment Agency are held on the National Incident Reporting System. Sum of incidents reported between 2001 and 2020 summarised by WFD Operational Catchment. Extracted from NIRS for Closed Category 3 and 4 Incidents classified as 3 and 4 in the Water Environmental Level code field from 01/01/2020 until date of extraction 20/05/2024. This data includes grid references for each incident. These Grid references were then used to map each Incident within ArcMap and analyse using the Spatial Join Tool how many incidents are located within each WFD Operational. Within the data tab shows a table of Counts of Category 3 and 4 Incidents within each WFD Operational Catchments from 01/01/2020 to data extraction date (20/05/2024).