EU Emerging Groundwater Pollutant Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. Groundwater pollutants reported outside the standard list — with their risk, failure, and trend flags.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE (Water Information System for Europe) into clean, per-record data — the groundwater pollutants reported outside the standard enumeration ('other' pollutants) for Europe's groundwater bodies. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per emerging-pollutant record, structured for environmental and water-management analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Water Framework Directive, member states may report groundwater pollutants beyond the standard enumerated list — the 'other' or emerging substances of local concern. This actor reads that table and delivers one record per such pollutant: the country and river basin district, the groundwater body, the chemical status label, the pollutant (as free-text 'other'), and the reported FLAGS — causing risk, causing failure, upward trend, trend reversal — plus any background level value and unit. Every flag is carried verbatim, never upgraded to a hazard verdict. It is the emerging-pollutant layer of Europe's groundwater assessment.

Who buys this and for what job

• Groundwater and contaminants-of-emerging-concern researchers tracking non-standard pollutants
• Regulatory and water-utility teams watching which emerging substances are flagged as causing risk or failure
• Environmental NGOs analysing the spread of emerging groundwater pollutants across basins
• Data engineers who want the WISE emerging-gw-pollutant table as clean rows from a keyless source.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. These are reported values and status labels as filed — not a compliance verdict.

Water-body grain — no person data

The unit of every record is an 'other'/emerging pollutant reported for a groundwater body — a water body or river basin and its reported attributes, never a person. WISE reporting is at water-body / river-basin level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted — the query reads only the water-body identity, the status/flags, and the pollutant, risk/failure/trend flags, and background level. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop. The file_url, where present, points to the official EEA/Eionet reporting file (an organisation reporting system), never a person.

A note on scale, honestly

The source table (GWB_GroundWaterBody_GWPollutant_gwPollutantOther) holds 33,537 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time — matching the index exactly. It carries the 2016 and 2022 reporting cycles.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "ATGK100026:CAS_140939-15-7 - Thiacloprid Amid:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "eu_groundwater_body_code": "ATGK100026",
  "groundwater_body_name": "NO INTERNATIONAL NAME",
  "chemical_status_value": "2",
  "pollutant_code": "EEA_00-00-0 - Other parameter",
  "pollutant_other": "CAS_140939-15-7 - Thiacloprid Amid",
  "pollutant_causing_risk": "No",
  "pollutant_causing_failure": "No",
  "pollutant_upward_trend": "No",
  "pollutant_trend_reversal": "Inapplicable",
  "pollutant_background_level_value": "unpopulated",
  "pollutant_background_level_unit": "unpopulated",
  "has_descriptive_data": 1,
  "file_url": "http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/at/eu/wfd2016/districts/at1000/envwvttw/GWB_AT_20170405.xml",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — other/emerging groundwater pollutants",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE (Water Information System for Europe) — other/emerging groundwater pollutants reported outside the standard enumeration. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE (Water Information System for Europe).",
  "disclaimer": "Groundwater pollutants reported OUTSIDE the standard enumeration ('other' pollutants), at groundwater-body / pollutant / reporting-cycle grain from the EEA WISE Water Framework Directive database. Each record names a groundwater body, the other/emerging pollutant, and the reported FLAGS — causing risk, causing failure, upward trend, and trend reversal — each carried VERBATIM exactly as filed and NEVER upgraded to an independent hazard verdict, plus any background level value/unit. Water-body grain — there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source, and none is selected or emitted; a person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:32:13Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
emerging_gw_pollutant_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR).
year	integer	—	Optional reporting cycle year to filter.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per emerging-pollutant record. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "ATGK100026:Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA):2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "eu_groundwater_body_code": "ATGK100026",
  "groundwater_body_name": "Example GW Body",
  "chemical_status_value": "2",
  "pollutant_other": "Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)",
  "pollutant_causing_risk": "Yes",
  "pollutant_upward_trend": "Yes",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) \u2014 other/emerging groundwater pollutants",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one 'other'/emerging pollutant. Identity: record_id, country_code, country_name, eu_rbd_code, rbd_name, eu_groundwater_body_code, groundwater_body_name, and reporting_year. Pollutant: chemical_status_value, pollutant_code, and pollutant_other. Flags (verbatim): pollutant_causing_risk, pollutant_causing_failure, pollutant_upward_trend, and pollutant_trend_reversal. Background: pollutant_background_level_value and pollutant_background_level_unit. Plus has_descriptive_data and file_url. Provenance travels on every record: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It pages the WISE emerging-gw-pollutant table (filtered to your optional countryCode and year), and flattens each row to one record — carrying every value and flag verbatim, never anything person-shaped — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The table holds on the order of 33,537 rows. Because each record carries the country_code, the water-body identity, and the pollutant_other and the risk/failure/trend flags, segmenting by country, basin, or year is straightforward. Pull one country, or the whole table to seed a water-analysis warehouse.

Identifiers and joins

Every record carries the eu_groundwater_body_code, keying each emerging pollutant back to the fleet's other WISE groundwater cells — the chemical-status exemptions, the threshold values in its basin, and the surface-water linkages — so a buyer can place an emerging substance in the full regulatory and connectivity picture of its groundwater body, on a shared identifier rather than a fuzzy name match.

Working with the data

The emerging pollutants are a watch-list layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record carries a pollutant_other name alongside pollutant_causing_risk, pollutant_causing_failure, and pollutant_upward_trend flags, an analyst can surface which emerging substances are most often flagged as driving risk or failure across groundwater bodies, and the reporting_year tracks how the watch-list evolved between the 2016 and 2022 cycles. The flags are carried exactly as reported — a member-state flag, not this actor's hazard judgment.

Cost guidance

One emerging_gw_pollutant_record per delivered row: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode and year to keep runs bounded. 1,000 rows is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As reported. Values, flags, and status labels are as filed by member states; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• A label, not a verdict. These are reported classifications, standards, exceedances, or linkages, not an independent compliance or hazard assessment.
• Acknowledge the EEA. The acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is distinct from the fleet's standard groundwater cells — this cell captures the 'OTHER'/emerging pollutants reported outside the standard enumeration, with their reported flags, not the enumerated pollutants or the threshold values. It complements eu-groundwater-chemical-exemption-records and eu-groundwater-threshold-value-records, and differs entirely from the Nitrates, Bathing Water, and Urban Waste Water directive cells. Its specific job is the WFD other/emerging groundwater pollutants.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Surface Water Failing Pollutant Records — EEA WISE
• EU Groundwater Threshold Value Records — EEA WISE
• EU Surface Water Chemical Exemption Records — EEA WISE
• EU Pesticide Water Monitoring Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE (Water Information System for Europe) (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. Water-body / river-basin grain; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Values and status labels as filed, not a compliance verdict.