Information is provided on:
environmental quality - the quality of Ireland's rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters and the assessment of the risk that these might fail to reach WFD standards the quality of bathing waters air quality (via a link to the corresponding pages on the main EPA website) facilities licensed by the EPA - the locations of facilities with IPPC or waste licences - the licences themselves may be downloaded via a link back to the main EPA website additional datasets - such as land cover information - the Corine Land Cover dataset for 2000 indicative soil and subsoil datasets provided to the EPA by Teagasc the locations of Water Framework Directive Protected Areas and River Basin Districts, hydrometric stations and river catchments the location of towns, rivers and lakes
environmental quality -
facilities licensed by the EPA -
additional datasets - such as
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Visitors can now view river water quality maps on the EPA Mapping Viewer. This mapping replaces the previous interactive river water quality map which will be removed from the website as soon as its usage declines.
View river water quality mapping on the new viewer.