WFDVisual Search

Welcome to the WFDVisual search tool. To start a search, please select from the options below.

This screen lists the search options for the different water body settings. At present, only groundwater is represented.

For the groundwater option there are currently three landscape/land use settings. For the initial release, only the rural Lowland scenario is searchable.

To run a search:

1) Select your desired landscape/land use scenario.
2) Choose the search type - specific, rule-based search, or broad search.

The search options are listed in groups according to whether they are pollution or abstraction pressures, pathway factors or receptors (i.e., the Source-Pathway-Receptor model). There are additional options to choose from also, to enhance the image.

3) Specify which options you want in your search by changing the order of the traffic lights.
4) When you are happy with your options, select “Run This Search” from the bottom of the page.

Water Bodies

WFDVisual Base Image



We will be developing WFDVisual to encompass many different settings and water bodies in the near future. These different settings are depicted in our base image (right).

the topographic setting, location within the catchment, and land use.

Scenario - Rural Upland

select how strict you wish the search to be.

Rule Base

Key

Must not contain
Can contain
Must contain

To toggle between
the options simply
click the relevent traffic light.



the pressure(s) associated with the land use

Pressure

pollution occuring at a point

Point

Farm buildings

Sheep dip
Sheep dip plume
Sheep dip runoff

Quarry
Quarry ponding
Quarry runoff
Quarry plume

Forestry
Forestry drainage
Forestry plume

Peat cutting
Unpumped
pollution occuring over an area

Diffuse

Grazing
Woods & Trees
water taken from the ground via borehole or other excavation

Abstraction

Quarry drain

the characteristics of the aquifer (groundwater-bearing rock or gravel) and overlaying strata (subsoils/drift) through which pollution may travel

Pathway

groundwater-bearing bedrock or sand/gravel

Aquifer

Poorly productive fissured aquifer + weathered zone
Poorly productive fissured aquifer no weathered zone
Productive fractured limestone aquifer
Productive intergranular flow sandstone aquifer
the degree to which an aquifer is vulnerable to pollution

Groundwater vulnerability

High

natural and human-made features that pollution may impact upon

Receptors

Hillside streams
Domestic well
River
...

Options

Flow arrows
Highlight
Zoom into area of interest
Aquifer flow process call out
Monitoring wells
Peat
Windfarm
Blanket Bog
Crag and Scree

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