Priority Areas for Underground Water Storage in South Holland - 2014

A 2014 geospatial dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations outlining priority zones for underground water storage in the first aquifer to support greenhouse horticulture and arboriculture in South Holland. The data is part of the provincial 'Vision on Space and Mobility' and includes a supplementary 'opportunity map' for six concentration areas. It is available in WMS, WFS, PNG, and HTML formats under a CC-PDM-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Spatial planning for sustainable irrigation based on designated priority zones for water storage.
• Integrating underground and above-ground land-use interests based on the described municipal planning framework.
• Identifying potential conflicts or synergies with other subsurface functions like thermal energy storage.

Strengths

• Based on an official provincial policy document ('Vision on Space and Mobility').
• Includes a supplementary 'opportunity map' for six specific concentration areas.

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

Collection Method

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Time Range

2014

Freshness

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Geography

Province of Zuid-Holland (South Holland), Netherlands