Water Storage Areas for Flood Prevention in a Dutch Province

Geospatial data on designated water storage areas established to prevent flooding from watercourses. The dataset originates from a Dutch provincial environmental vision adopted by the Provincial Council on 9 July 2014. The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Use Cases

• Modeling flood risk mitigation based on designated water storage areas.
• Planning water management infrastructure based on the locations of storage zones.
• Analyzing regional environmental policy implementation based on the 2014 Environmental Vision.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific policy document (Environmental Vision) adopted on 9 July 2014.
• Published under the open CC-PDM-1.0 license.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (WMS, WFS, PNG, HTML).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

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Time Range

Policy adopted 9 July 2014; temporal data coverage unknown.

Freshness

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Geography

A Dutch province (specific province not named).