Indre-et-Loire, France, watercourses classified under the Water Act based on legal criteria. The classification criteria likely include the presence of a natural bed and the permanence of flow, as defined by case law. The dataset was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on January 25, 2022.
Use Cases
- Map watercourse legal status based on criteria like natural bed presence.
- Analyze hydrological permanence for water resource management based on flow criteria.
- Support legal casework referencing the 1980 Forfillet jurisprudence mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Legal classification criteria are explicitly defined in the description.
- Dataset is associated with a specific geological and mining research organization (BRGM).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2022-01-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Freshness
- Last updated 2022-01-25 00:00:00
- Geography
- Indre-et-Loire, France