Aquifer Properties, Database Of Physical Properties Of Aquifers In England And Wales.
Data on the physical properties (transmissivity, storage coefficient, porosity and permeability) of aquifers in England and Wales. Compiled by BGS staff from paper records of field and laboratory testing held by BGS, the Environment Agency and other organisations. Contains summary data on approximately 20,000 pump tests at over 2000 discrete locations. Raw data may be available on request. The majority of BGS and EA pump test data is included for both major and minor aquifers, but in minor aquifers this is complemented by data on specific yield. Laboratory determinations of porosity and permeability are limited to open file BGS data only. All data subject to similar processing and interpretation, but raw data highly variable.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1960
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480111
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Originator British Geological Survey
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not available
Distributor British Geological Survey
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not available
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Aquifer properties
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Hydrogeology
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Permeability
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Pump tests
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Groundwater
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Porosity
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Hydrology
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Data are sold as package with printed report. Data are copyright and provision to third parties without agreement and/or licensing is limited.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Other constraints
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Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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ENG
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision
- Geographic identifier
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ENGLAND [id=150000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Geographic identifier
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WALES [id=170000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
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WLS
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision
- Begin date
- 1960
- Supplemental Information
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Date of some data capture may be unknown, but this does not materially affect data validity. Ongoing update of database subject to funding and is project driven. Density of data in proportion to drilling densities, from 1 per km2 to less than 1 per 100 km2. The summary data are included as CD-ROMS with printed copies of the Aquifer Property Manual publications. The database in Allen et al contains data on the Major Aquifers, Jones et al contains the summary data for both major and minor aquifers. The software formats used on the CD-ROMs may be outdated and Excel versions of the data can be supplied it to purchasers of the manuals on request. Detailed data are available in various formats by special arrangement. PUBLICATION: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES ALLEN, D J, BREWERTON, LJ, COLEBY, LM, GIBBS, BR, LEWIS, MA, MACDDONALD, AM, WAGSTAFF, SJ, AND WILLIARNS, AT. 1997. THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MAJOR AQUIFERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. BRITISH GEOLOGICAL REPORT WD/97/34 312PP. ENVIRONMENT AGENCY R&D PUBLICATION 8. JONES, H.K.; MORRIS, B.L.; CHENEY, C.S.; BREWERTON, L.J.; MERRIN, P.D.; LEWIS, M.A.; MACDONALD, A.M. ; COLEBY, L.M.; TALBOT, J.C.; MCKENZIE, A.A.; BIRD, M.J.; CUNNINGHAM, J.E.; ROBINSON, V.. 2000 THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINOR AQUIFERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 234PP. (WD/00/004, ENVIRONMENT AGENCY R&D PUBLICATION 68)
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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Name Version PAPER - Paper reports.
Microsoft Excel
Current version
Microsoft Access
Access 97
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
not available
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name HTTP
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ BGS Homepage
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- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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The data were compiled from original paper records collected by the EA for abstraction licensing, and by BGS for research. Data were subject to review and were assessed by project staff for completeness and interpretation accuracy. The original data were collated to give 'best' estimates for each parameter in individual boreholes and, where boreholes fell within a 100 metre radius, for groups of boreholes. Only the collated data is normally released.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9df8df51-632a-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI