Abstraction Licensing

Name: Abstraction Licensing
Creator: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Open Data Northern Ireland OGL-UK-3.0 ⚙ service endpoint Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs · updated 2026-08-01

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About this layer: In Northern Ireland water abstraction and impoundment is controlled by The Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland 2006, as amended by The Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations. (Northern Ireland) 2007. The regulations apply to all groundwater and surface water abstractions that abstract more than 10m3 per day. Abstractions less than this are Permitted Controlled Activities and are automatically authorised by NIEA. What can you do with the layer? Visualisation: This layer can be used for visualisation online in web maps. Analysis: This layer can be used in dashboards. Download: The data is downloadable.

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