Drenthe Provincial Environmental Ordinance 2018: Deep Drilling Prohibition Zones

Provincial Environmental Ordinance 2018 - Boundary prohibition zone deep drilling (history) is a geospatial dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. It delineates deep drilling prohibition zones under the Drenthe Provincial Environmental Ordinance adopted on 3 October 2018, aimed at protecting groundwater sources for drinking water. The data likely contains map layers defining areas where natural clay layers provide groundwater protection.

Use Cases

• Map groundwater protection zones based on the described prohibition boundaries.
• Analyze land-use restrictions for deep drilling projects based on the ordinance's defined zones.
• Model natural groundwater protection from clay layers based on the described subsurface features.
• Support regulatory compliance checks for drilling permits based on the legal boundaries.

Strengths

• Based on a specific legal ordinance adopted on 3 October 2018.
• Sourced from the authoritative Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
• Has a clear public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).

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

Likely derived from legal ordinance mapping processes.

Time Range

Ordinance adopted 3 October 2018.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.