Water Quality - Sewage Treatment in the UK: Sensitive Areas
Maps and tables of Sensitive Areas
UK Sensitive Area maps
England
By Environment Agency Region
- Anglian ( 500 KB)
- Midlands (500 KB)
- North East (450 KB)
- North West (500 KB)
- South West (600 KB)
- Southern (500 KB)
- Thames (450 KB)
- Maps of Sensitive Areas in Northern Ireland (on Northern Ireland Government website)
- Maps of Sensitive Areas in Scotland (on Scottish Government website)
Wales (450 KB)
- Sensitive Areas (Eutrophic, Nitrate)
- Sensitive Areas (Bathing Waters*)
- Sensitive Areas (Shellfish Waters*, Freshwater Fish)
- Summary tables of Sensitive Areas and Less Sensitive Areas
- Spreadsheet listing Sensitive Areas (Excel 500 KB)
- UK Sensitive Areas (PDF 450 KB)
- Sensitive Area identification chronology (PDF 40 KB)
- Sensitive Area length and area summary (PDF 20 KB)
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
EA Wales
Tables listing UK sensitive areas
*The names of the Bathing and Shellfish Water Sensitive Areas in these tables are linked to individual site maps delineating each Sensitive Area in detail.
Spreadsheet listing Sensitive Areas
The Excel file's main sheet is a single, consolidated, list of all types of Sensitive Areas and includes a facility to easily sort the table on any of its columns.
One of the two summary sheets provides a chronology of SA identifications; the other, km and/or km² coverage of Sensitive Areas aggregated by type and UK area.
Adobe Acrobat version of spreadsheet for downloading and printing
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Page last modified: 13 November 2007
Page published 28 September 2007