Description: Sensitive area rivers as designated under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) and covered by The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/273/contents/made).Note: the dataset includes a 'Date Expired' field, to view only current designations filter the data where date_expired IS NULL.
Description: Sensitive area estuaries as designated under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) and covered by The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/273/contents/made).Note: the dataset includes a 'Date Expired' field, to view only current designations filter the data where date_expired IS NULL.
Description: Sensitive area lakes as designated under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) and covered by The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/273/contents/made).Note: the dataset includes a 'Date Expired' field, to view only current designations filter the data where date_expired IS NULL.
Description: Contains the catchments of all the sensitive areas designated under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) which includes rivers, lochs and estuaries, plus a subset of shellfish and bathing waters. Sensitive areas are covered by The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/273/contents/made). Note: the dataset includes a 'Date Expired' field, to view only current designations filter the data where date_expired IS NULL.
Description: River waterbodies used for the abstraction of drinking water were identified as drinking water protection areas (DWPAs) under the Water Framework Directive (related datasets: Drinking Water Protected Areas - Groundwaters and Drinking Water Protected Areas - Lochs). The DWPAs have been defined by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in line with the requirements of The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2013.
Description: Loch waterbodies used for the abstraction of drinking water were identified as drinking water protection areas (DWPAs) under the Water Framework Directive (related datasets: Drinking Water Protected Areas - Rivers and Drinking Water Protected Areas - Groundwaters). The DWPAs have been defined by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in line with the requirements of The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2013.
Description: River and loch waterbodies used for the abstraction of drinking water were identified as drinking water protection areas (DWPAs) under the Water Framework Directive (related datasets: Drinking Water Protected Areas - Rivers and Drinking Water Protected Areas - Lochs). This dataset contains the catchment area for small loch and small river waterbodies and the intercatchment area for baseline loch and river waterbodies. There are one or two exceptions where a small waterbody lies downstream of a baseline waterbody, in which case the intercatchment has been used. The DWPAs have been defined by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in line with the requirements of The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2013.
Description: Groundwater waterbodies used for the abstraction of drinking water were identified as drinking water protection areas (DWPAs) under the Water Framework Directive (related datasets: Drinking Water Protected Areas - Rivers and Drinking Water Protected Areas - Lochs). The DWPAs have been defined by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in line with the requirements of The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2013.
Description: Shellfish Water Protected Areas came into force on 22/12/13 comprising 85 areas defined by The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas - Designation) (Scotland) Order 2013 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/324/pdfs/ssi_20130324_en.pdf). Loch Ryan was designated separately and came into force on 4/10/16 through The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas: Designation) (Scotland) Order 2016 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/251/pdfs/ssi_20160251_en.pdf). For more information and maps of the individual designations please see the Scottish Government web pages: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/Water/15561/ShellfishWaters.
Description: Catchments for Shellfish Water Protected Area designated sites. New genre of Shellfish Water Protected Areas came into force on 22/12/13 comprising 85 areas: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/324/pdfs/ssi_20130324_en.pdf. The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas - Designation) (Scotland) Order 2013. Loch Ryan was designated separately and came into force on 4/10/16: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/251/pdfs/ssi_20160251_en.pdf The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas: Designation) (Scotland) Order 2016. For more information and maps of the individual designations please see the Scottish Government web pages: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/Water/15561/ShellfishWaters.
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Description: The greatest risk of large numbers of salmon being infested with harmful levels of sea lice is during their passage, as small post-smolts, through sea lochs and other confined areas of sea at the start of their migration to oceanic feeding grounds.No specific migration routes are known for West Coast sea trout post-smolts but the limited information available suggests predominantly inshore and local use of coastal waters.To target protection where potential risk is greatest, we have identified a network of WSPZs along the West Coast and around the Western Isles. The network includes the following areas:All sea lochs into which salmon rivers drain.Sounds through which salmon populations are likely to migrate.Sea areas within 5 km radius of all salmon river mouths, irrespective of whether the river drains into a sea loch or sound.All areas of sea within 5 km of rivers designated for the protection of freshwater pearl mussels. This includes salmon rivers but excludes non-salmon rivers. In the latter, trout act as the sole hosts in the lifecycle of the mussels. Many of the WSPZs have fish farms already located in or near them; and, because of their water currents, have potential to accumulate higher concentrations of infective-stage sea lice than more open sea areas.This feature class was derived from SEPAs Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) Coastal and Transitional water bodies. The water bodies were created using the OS boundary line High Water dataset, OS Open Map Local dataset and UKHO Open Data 3 nautical mile limit.