Provincial Groundwater Protection Areas in Drenthe, Historical Ordinance Amendments

Drenthe, a province in the Netherlands, enacted a Provincial Environment Ordinance for groundwater protection in 2004. The dataset likely contains geospatial boundaries for these protected areas, along with historical amendments adopted in 2006 and 2007. It is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Map historical groundwater protection zones based on the described ordinance boundaries.
• Analyze changes in environmental regulation over time based on the amendment dates mentioned.
• Support land-use planning decisions by identifying areas with specific groundwater protection status.

Strengths

• Based on an official Provincial Environment Ordinance, providing legal grounding.
• Includes historical amendments from 2006 and 2007, offering temporal context.

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.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely derived from official provincial legal documents and spatial planning data.

Time Range

Ordinance adopted 2004, with amendments in 2006 and 2007.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.