Drenthe Water Storage Areas Adopted in 2014

Drenthe, a province in the Netherlands, designated specific areas for water storage as part of its Environmental Vision policy. The dataset likely contains the spatial boundaries of these 'Bergingsarea' zones, which were adopted by the Provincial Staten van Drenthe on 2 July 2014. The data originates from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is provided as a map layer.

Use Cases

• Modeling flood risk and water retention capacity based on designated storage areas.
• Analyzing land-use conflicts based on the dual-destination zoning mentioned in the description.
• Integrating water management zones with other environmental datasets for regional planning.
• Visualizing policy implementation for the 2014 Environmental Vision on thematic maps.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific legislative act (adopted 2 July 2014).
• Originates from an authoritative government source (Dutch Ministry).
• Released under an open license (CC-PDM-1.0).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Adopted as part of provincial zoning and environmental planning.

Time Range

Policy adopted in 2014.

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.