This code list is used in association with the Description attribute which is present within the Water Point Feature Type. The code list describes the type of interaction at a water point (for example, culvert entrance).
Label
Definition
Culvert Entrance
The entrance or exit to a pipe or conduit for the flow of water under the ground.
Culvert Entrance And Issues
The entrance or exit to a pipe or conduit for the flow of water under the ground that also acts as an Issues (the source of a stream or river).
Culvert Entrance And Outfall
The entrance or exit to a pipe or conduit for the flow of water under the ground that is coincident with an Outfall.
Culvert Entrance And Spring
The entrance or exit to a pipe or conduit for the flow of water under the ground that is coincident with a Spring.
Ford
A location where a road, track or path passes through a watercourse which for at least some part of the year passes over and/or along the communication route.
Issues
The source of a stream which is a natural emission from an agricultural drain, or where the stream re-emerges from underground. Please see also Culvert Entrance As Issues.
Memorial Open Well
A Well commemorating a person or event.
Mineral Spring
A place where water, containing mineral deposits, naturally wells up from below the ground.
Sinks
A natural hole, shaft or funnel shaped hollow where a stream disappears underground.
Source Of Watercourse
The origin to which a river or stream may be traced.
Spring
A place where water naturally wells up from below the ground. OR A place where water naturally wells up from below the ground, being of historical interest.
Spring As Source Of Watercourse
A place where water, containing iron, naturally wells up from below the ground that is the origin to which a river or stream may be traced.
Tidal Ford
An established surface part of a tidal or inter tidal area that extends from one area above MHW(S) to another that can be used as a crossing point for pedestrians and/or vehicles.
Waterfall
A steep fall of river or stream water, where its course is markedly and suddenly interrupted, that extends for less than 2.0m.