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Scottish Water Classification Hub
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Cost
- Free
- Account needed
- No
- Harvestable
- Not assessed
What it contains
Water Framework Directive classification results for Scottish groundwater bodies, rivers, lochs, transitional and coastal waters: overall status, quantitative status, chemical status, and pressure/reason-for-not-achieving-good attribution. Directly determines whether an open-loop abstraction or reinjection is likely to be permitted.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Constraints, regulation and consenting data (not a matrix item)
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Nations
- Scotland
- Resolution
- Water body polygon (groundwater bodies typically 10-500 km2)
- Formats
- Spotfire dashboard; underlying data as CSV/XLSX on request; spatial boundaries via SEPA Open Data Hub
- Update cadence
- Annual classification cycle
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- Open Government Licence v3
- Assertion source
- as published by Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Protocol
- TIBCO Spotfire web app (interactive only)
- Harvest note
- Weak - the classification results are not exposed as a machine endpoint; only the geometry is machine_endpoint field held prose, not a URL: No documented public API for the Hub itself; boundaries via SEPA ArcGIS FeatureServer
Caveats
The analytical content is locked in a Spotfire application. Joining classification status to geometry requires a manual export plus a key join. This is the Scottish equivalent of the Environment Agency's Catchment Data Explorer but with materially worse machine access.
Classification
- Category
- Constraints, Regulation & Consenting
- Sub-category
- 4.2 Groundwater & water environment protection
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- Mine workings
- Technology
- Open-loop / ATES
- Data form
- Tabular, Vector
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- scottish-water-classification-hub
Openly licensed. No account needed.