IKN Groundwater Protection Zones for Drenthe Province

IKN Grondwaterbescherming (historie) is a geospatial dataset containing groundwater protection zones for the Dutch province of Drenthe. The data originates from the provincial environmental ordinance version established on October 3, 2018, and is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The dataset includes areas such as water extraction zones, groundwater protection zones, and prohibition zone boundaries for deep drilling.

Use Cases

• Map groundwater protection zones for environmental impact assessments based on the described area types.
• Analyze regulatory boundaries for land-use planning based on the ordinance-derived zones.
• Support hydrological modeling by identifying protected water extraction areas mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data is derived from an official provincial ordinance established on a specific date (October 3, 2018).
• The dataset includes multiple defined zone types for groundwater protection as listed in the description.
• It has a clear authoritative source (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Derived from the Provinciale Omgevingsverordening Drenthe (Provincial Environmental Ordinance).

Time Range

Ordinance version from October 3, 2018; dataset temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.