Sanitation Competence Areas in the Orne Department, 2012

A geospatial layer defining areas of competence for sanitation services in the French department of Orne for the year 2012. The dataset was created by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) and published via the EU Open Data platform. It maps the jurisdictional boundaries for wastewater collection and treatment, which may differ from standard administrative borders due to inter-municipal cooperation and delegation.

Use Cases

• Mapping wastewater service jurisdictions based on the described 'areas of competence'.
• Analyzing the administrative geography of public sanitation based on inter-municipal cooperation (EPCI) structures.
• Visualizing the divergence between service delivery areas and standard municipal boundaries mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Specific temporal coverage for the year 2012.
• Geographic scope is clearly defined as the Department of Orne.
• Data origin is a recognized geological and mining research organization (BRGM).

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-04-05 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Likely derived from legal statutes and administrative records defining inter-municipal cooperation (EPCI) powers.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

2019-04-05 00:00:00

Geography

Department of Orne, France