CEFAS43704848-4285-4278-bc29-1a80983dfdc4 English series series Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2024-07-24T11:44:34 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Volumes, dredged area measurements and estimated contaminants of material disposed at licensed offshore sites around the UK coast from 2000 to 2020 OSPAR Returns 2018-07-31 publication 2024-07-24 revision 2013-11-08 creation CEFAS2970 https://data.cefas.co.uk The dataset contains data related to registered offshore sediment disposal sites around the UK coast and includes volumes of disposed material, dredged areas, calculated levels of contaminants in the disposal material and licence details. Data were collated for the years 2000 to 2020. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) on behalf of Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra), report these data for the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man, annually as a UK obligation under both the London Convention/London Protocol on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (LCLP) and the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR). Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor annually Anthropogenic contamination SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Quantity of material dumped SeaDataNet P02 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Dredging & disposal GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Sediment SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions **Publicly available data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)`_ – Please note the applicable attribution statement is as follows: ‘includes Crown copyright, Cefas 2022.'** .. _`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)`: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English boundaries -25.00 6.00 45.00 60.00 2000 2020 Binary Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/2970 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: Binary download, CSV, ESRI Shapefile. The data can also be accessed via the WFS and WMS protocols. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification 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 2010-12-08 publication true See the referenced specification The dataset was created by combining the regulatory data collected around the UK, including England and the Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and Isle of Man devolved administrations, with quality assurance and calculations of contaminant loads carried out by Cefas. Regulatory data includes disposal returns submitted to individual regulatory bodies by the licence holders, supplemented by chemical and physical analyses data of samples taken to characterise the disposed material. This information is provided annually to Cefas by the individual bodies. Cefas then collates the various returns datasets and carries out quality assurance. Cefas also calculates the contaminant loads from the sample analysis data, and scales up to individual sites to estimate how much contaminant has been disposed of. Reports produced by Cefas with the finalised data are submitted to LCLP and OSPAR secretariats on behalf of Defra. The spatial extents of the licensed disposal sites are described by the following published metadata `https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/407`_. Disposal volumes are measured using on board volume calculations and reported to the Regulator(s) annually. Contaminant information is measured in samples using established techniques for marine sediment (see `https://www.gov.uk/guidance/marine-licensing-sediment-analysis-and-sample-plans`_ for example) and are then weighted by dredged area proportions and scaled up to the disposal volume. .. _`https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/407`: https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/407 .. _`https://www.gov.uk/guidance/marine-licensing-sediment-analysis-and-sample-plans`: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/marine-licensing-sediment-analysis-and-sample-plans MEDIN 3.1.1