Municipal River Union Memberships in Saône-et-Loire, France

A list of municipalities in the French department of Saône-et-Loire and their memberships in one or more river unions. The dataset was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on June 12, 2019. River unions are geographically competent over valleys and undertake actions for watercourse management, including sanitation, environmental restoration, and maintenance.

Use Cases

• Mapping municipal participation in water management bodies based on union membership data.
• Analyzing the geographic overlap of river union jurisdictions based on the described valley-based competence.
• Studying inter-municipal cooperation for sanitation and environmental restoration projects as described for the unions' purpose.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a national geological and mining research bureau (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières).
• Explicitly describes the purpose and geographic scope (valleys) of the river unions.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-06-12 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières

Freshness

Last updated 2019-06-12 00:00:00

Geography

Municipalities in the department of Saône-et-Loire, France