PPRN/PSS: Regulated Flood Hazard Areas for Roville-devant-Bayon

Submersible Surface Planes (PSS) are the first mapping documents regulating land cover in flooding areas for federal watercourses in France, created by the Decree-Law of 30 October 1935. The dataset, provided by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, represents the regulated area of the PSS for the municipality of Roville-devant-Bayon (54465). It was last updated on 2019-04-05.

Use Cases

• Assess land development restrictions based on flood hazard zoning.
• Identify areas subject to utility easements for water flow conservation.
• Support regulatory enforcement for construction permits in flood-prone zones.
• Analyze historical flood risk mapping policy evolution from PSS to PPR.

Strengths

• Based on a long-standing legal framework established in 1935.
• Has legal enforceability against third parties under the Barnier Law of 1995.
• Provides a defined regulatory zoning plan for flood hazards.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-04-05; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single municipality.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Freshness

2019-04-05

Geography

Municipality of Roville-devant-Bayon (54465), France