Groundwater Protection Areas Under the Dutch NH2020 Environmental Regulation

Scope — groundwater protection area is a spatial plan dataset from the Dutch Environmental Regulation NH2020, adopted on 16-11 2020. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is available in WFS, PNG, and WMS formats under a CC-PDM-1.0 license. The plan details can be consulted on spatialplans.nl and are defined in articles 4.30 to 4.38 and 7.15.

Use Cases

• Delineating protected zones for groundwater sources based on the NH2020 regulation articles.
• Integrating regulatory boundaries into environmental impact assessments using the provided spatial formats.
• Creating maps for public consultation on water protection plans via the spatialplans.nl platform.

Strengths

• Based on a formal environmental regulation (NH2020) with a specific adoption date of 16-11-2020.
• Provides multiple standard geospatial formats (WFS, PNG, WMS) for different use cases.
• Has a clear legal reference to specific articles (4.30 to 4.38, 7.15) for interpretation.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• 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

Likely derived from official spatial planning documents as part of the NH2020 regulation.

Time Range

Regulation adopted on 16-11-2020; temporal coverage of the spatial data is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely covers areas within the Netherlands subject to the NH2020 regulation.