Polluted or Potentially Polluted Sites and Soils in Europe

A 2021 dataset from the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières cataloging sites and soils identified as polluted or at risk of pollution, requiring preventive or curative action by public authorities. The data is provided via an INSPIRE download service, suggesting a standardized geospatial format for European environmental data.

Use Cases

• Mapping environmental contamination hotspots based on identified polluted sites.
• Assessing regional soil pollution risks for land-use planning.
• Prioritizing public authority intervention based on site pollution status.
• Analyzing the distribution of sites requiring preventive versus curative action.

Strengths

• Dataset is provided via an INSPIRE-standardized geospatial service, ensuring interoperability.
• Last updated date is explicitly recorded as 2021-09-17.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2021-09-17; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national or regional environmental monitoring and reporting.

Time Range

Coverage up to 2021-09-17.

Freshness

2021-09-17

Geography

Spatial coverage is implied to be within the jurisdiction of the providing European organization.