Protected Zone D: Regional Flood Defences in Groningen Province

Regional flood defences in the Dutch province of Groningen, established under the Environmental Ordinance. These structures are designed and maintained to withstand a water level with a statistical recurrence interval of once every 100 years. The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is part of the Frisian Boezem water system.

Use Cases

• Mapping flood protection infrastructure based on the defined protected zones.
• Assessing regional flood risk based on the 1:100 year design standard mentioned in the description.
• Integrating with land-use planning models based on the regulatory boundaries.
• Analyzing the spatial relationship between defences and the Frisian Boezem water system referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Data is defined by a specific legal instrument: the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen.
• Defences have a clear engineering standard: designed for a 1:100 year water level event.
• Explicitly part of a known hydrological system: the Frisian Boezem.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Established by provincial regulation; likely digitized from official spatial plans.

Time Range

null

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands