Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Water Quality Data Archive held in WISKI (KiWQM)
Water quality data is held in the WISKI Kisters Water Quality Module (KiWQM). The Water Quality Archive provides a central repository for all data relating to water quality measurements that have since the 1960's been collected from over 22,000 sampling points, with 2,500 active today. Samples are taken from coastal or estuarine waters, rivers, lakes, ponds, canals or groundwater. Additional data has been provided by third parties as public record. The data measures a wide range of water quality parameters, such as nutrients, metals and physio-chemical determinants for both archived and processed data and these are used to assess discharge monitoring against discharge permits, investigation of pollution incidents or environmental monitoring. Whilst this data is used to meet the requirements of The Water Framework Directive and Bathing Water Quality assessments, the system is currently unable to record anything about compliance.
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- Maintenance
- Metadata
Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS119251
- Alternative Title
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- Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and third party Water Quality Data Archive held in WISKI (KiWQM) (3rd party data)
- CNC Archif Data Ansawdd Dŵr a gedwir yn WISKI (KiWQM)
- Metadata Language
- English
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The Water Quality Archive, replaces the previous Environment Agency (EA) WIMS and MIDAS systems. Repeat samples are taken from 2,500 fixed sampling points around Wales (and more than 22,000 historical sample points), the results of which were analysed by the Environment Agency's National Laboratory in Llanelli until 2016, and since then by Natural Resource Wales Analytical Services facilities based at Swansea University. Additionally, analyses are also completed in the field with handheld probes measuring common parameters such as temperature and pH.as well as derived directly within the KiWQM software from previously recorded parameters, as is the case for Dissolved Oxygen, Organophosphate and Total Oxidised Nitrogen.
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 1962-01-01
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Inland waters
- Environment
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Distribution
- Format Type and Description
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Database
Database
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- Specification
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WISKI - Kister Water Quality Module
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Database
Database
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Quality
Data quality
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Lineage
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The Water Quality Archive, replaces the previous Environment Agency (EA) WIMS and MIDAS systems. Repeat samples are taken from 2,500 fixed sampling points around Wales (and more than 22,000 historical sample points), the results of which were analysed by the Environment Agency's National Laboratory in Llanelli until 2016, and since then by Natural Resource Wales Analytical Services facilities based at Swansea University. Additionally, analyses are also completed in the field with handheld probes measuring common parameters such as temperature and pH.as well as derived directly within the KiWQM software from previously recorded parameters, as is the case for Dissolved Oxygen, Organophosphate and Total Oxidised Nitrogen.
Keywords
Keywords
Keywords
- NRW Thesaurus
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- Water Framework Directive (WFD)
- heavy metals
- bathing water
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-12-31
Keywords
- Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary
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- discharge consents
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Revision)
- 2013-04-03
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
Custom Elements
Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
- Restriction type
- Other restrictions
Access Constraints Directive
- Limitations
- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
- Other constraints
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This data is comprised of a mixture of third party owned records and NRW records. There are no access restrictions on this data. However, there are third party use restrictions. Restricted data is flagged within the dataset.
Use Constraints
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- Other restrictions
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© CNC/NRW and various third parties NRW owns the copyright of the collation, but the ownership of the records themselves rests with the originator. Data owned by NRW or data that forms part of the public register may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose. However, NRW does NOT grant permission to re-use or disseminate restricted third party dataset held within the collation. Those seeking such permission should approach the originator directly.
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313139323531 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-05-31T09:14:10.707Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
- Metadata Standard Version
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1.0