Sprinkling Pits: Notified Irrigation Wells Following 2016 Dutch Policy

A collection of notified irrigation wells following a new policy implemented in April 2016 concerning drainage pipe construction and well storage. The dataset originates from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is licensed under CC-PDM-1.0. The file formats include ZIP and PNG, suggesting the data may contain geospatial images or documents.

Use Cases

• Mapping irrigation infrastructure based on the notification data.
• Analyzing compliance with the 2016 policy on drainage and well storage.
• Assessing spatial distribution of agricultural water resources based on well locations.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific policy change in April 2016, providing a clear temporal context.
• Published under a public domain dedication license (CC-PDM-1.0), allowing for broad reuse.

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 (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely collected as administrative notifications following a policy implementation.

Time Range

Data collection appears to have started after April 2016.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely covers the Netherlands, given the source organization.