ICELAND · ACCESS · WATER PROTECTION
Vatnsverndarsvæði
What this layer shows
Drinking-water protection zones under Regulation No. 796/1999: wellhead, inner and outer zones as municipalities set them in their plans. In the wellhead and inner zones, works and activities that could pollute groundwater are banned or conditional. The data date from 2016; confirm in the current municipal plan.
Publisher and licence
Umhverfis- og orkustofnun (UOS), frjáls notkun, getið heimilda
Licence not stated by the publisher
Umhverfis- og orkustofnun (UOS), frjáls notkun, getið heimilda
Where the data comes from
WFS · gis.ust.is
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Facts shown for each feature
Zone · Municipality · Source · Date
In these presets
Development and planning
What matters before building: drinking-water protection zones, avalanche hazard, contaminated soil, noise maps, post-glacial lava, recorded archaeological sites and planted forest.