Water bodies — Metropolis — State of the Places version 2019

A river water body is a distinct and significant part of surface waters such as a river, river or canal, part of a river, river or canal, constituting the elemental division of aquatic environments intended to be the WFD assessment unit.

The criteria for the realisation of river water bodies are:
— A body of water belongs to a single hydroecoregion;

— The dominant fish settlement based on the fish context (Salmonicole, cyprinicole, Intermediate);

— Size class (strahler confluence row).

Correspondence report DCE:
this entity corresponds to WISE’s Surface Water Body Line concept.

The layers are distributed in a format consistent with the SANDRE data dictionary of the Water Mass Reference, version 1.4.