Groningen Province Areas Prohibiting Physical Soil Disturbance for Groundwater Protection

Gebieden met verbod op fysische bodemaantasting is a geospatial dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. It delineates areas where physical soil disturbance is prohibited under the provincial environmental ordinance of Groningen to protect groundwater sources. The dataset is part of a broader groundwater protection framework that includes water extraction areas and protection zones.

Use Cases

• Mapping regulatory constraints for construction planning based on the described prohibition zones.
• Analyzing groundwater vulnerability by overlaying areas with protective clay layers mentioned in the description.
• Enforcing provincial environmental ordinances based on the defined spatial rules.
• Integrating land-use data with water resource management frameworks based on the three-part groundwater protection structure.

Strengths

• Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (WMS, WFS) suitable for integration into GIS systems.
• The dataset is part of a legally established framework, suggesting authoritative boundaries.
• License is clearly stated as CC-PDM-1.0, allowing for public domain use.

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

Likely derived from provincial regulatory mapping processes.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands