Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage
This dataset is an inventory of reservoir details for the UK. It provides information, including reservoir location, type (impounding or non-impounding), use (water resources, hydro-electric, ecological, flood storage, canal), capacity, planning date, construction date, catchment National River Flow Archive (NRFA) gauge references and membership of a reservoir group, based on current usage within the CEH Monthly Hydrological Summary (https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/monthly-hydrological-summary-uk). The dataset comprises 273 individual reservoirs, which amount to approximately 90% of total UK reservoir storage. Data quality has been recorded, using a data flag system and a notes section, with references relevant to each reservoir provided. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38
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- Spatial rep.
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Identification
Data identification
Citation
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-07-20
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38
- Other citation details
- Durant, M.J., Counsell, C.J. (2018). Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Hydrography
Legal constraints
- Limitations on Public Access
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- Other constraints
- no limitations
Legal constraints
- Use constraints
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Legal constraints
- Use constraints
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- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Durant, M.J., Counsell, C.J. (2018). Inventory of reservoirs amounting to 90% of total UK storage. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 1789-01-01
- End date
- 2001-12-31
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Distribution
Distribution
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Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Download a copy of this data
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Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
Quality
Data quality
Scope
- Quality Scope
- dataset
- Other
- dataset
Report
Citation
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Information on reservoirs and their capacity was collected from the Environment Agency under Open Government Licence through a Freedom of Information request, and the UK Lakes Portal (CEH). Information was then gathered from internet searches. The quality of source data has been identified wherever possible through the use of a data flag system, and use of the notes section. References are supplied for all information within the inventory. The composition of reservoir groups were confirmed through correspondence with Water Companies responsible for submitting storage volumes for the Hydrological Summaries, produced by CEH. The inventory includes reservoirs up to 1,600 megalitre (Ml) capacity, as well as reservoirs below this capacity that are included within reservoir groups for which there is historic storage information and sufficient information on planning and construction dates. The threshold of 1,600 Ml was decided, based on less available information for smaller reservoirs, and that 1,600 Ml equates to approximately 90% capacity of all reservoirs in the Reservoirs Act 1975.
Ref. system
Metadata
Metadata
- File identifier
- f5a7d56c-cea0-4f00-b159-c3788a3b2b38 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-04-19T09:26:55
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/