Flood Risk Prevention Plan for Pavia Municipality in Gers, France

Flood risk prevention plan for the municipality of Pavia in the Gers department of France. The plan was developed under the French Risk Prevention Plans (PPR) framework established by the Act of 2 February 1995 and is the responsibility of the State, decided by the Prefect. The data conforms to the COVADIS standard for the digital storage of geographical data represented in risk prevention plans.

Use Cases

• Assess flood hazard zones based on the geographical data specifications of the PPR.
• Inform municipal land-use planning decisions using the state-mandated risk prevention plan.
• Support civil security and environmental protection efforts as outlined in the 1987 and 1995 French laws.

Strengths

• Data follows the standardized COVADIS technical specifications for digital geographical storage.
• Plan is established under formal French legislation (Act of 2 February 1995 and Law of 22 July 1987).
• Development is the responsibility of the French State, suggesting an authoritative source.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-09-16 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Likely produced as part of the state-mandated Risk Prevention Plan (PPR) development process.

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-16 00:00:00

Geography

Municipality of Pavia in the Gers department, France.