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NETHERLANDS · DESIGNATIONS · DRINKING WATER PROTECTION

Boringsvrije zone

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A zone around a drinking water abstraction in which the province restricts or prohibits drilling through the protective, poorly permeable clay layer, in order to protect the deeper groundwater. Boreholes, ground-source energy systems and foundations that reach deeper than the established limit are prohibited or subject to permit here. The protected depth is given in the data for only some of the zones. This is a national, indicative compilation by the RIVM and the province's omgevingsverordening remains decisive; in Friesland, Noord-Holland and Zeeland this layer returns no zones, and that is not the same as a finding that no zone is present.

Publisher and licence

Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) · Atlas Natuurlijk Kapitaal — Public Domain Mark 1.0

Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), Atlas Natuurlijk Kapitaal — Public Domain Mark 1.0

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Where the data comes from

WFS · data.rivm.nl

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Quickscan

What a consultant checks first: Natura 2000, National Parks and Ramsar wetlands, the public-law restrictions from the Wkpb register, rijksmonumenten, beschermde stads- en dorpsgezichten and World Heritage, the flood defences with their protection zone from the legger, and the province's water abstraction areas, groundwater protection areas and boringsvrije zones. The omgevingsplan and the Natuurnetwerk Nederland are missing here; for those, consult the Omgevingsloket and the provincial omgevingsverordening.

Planning

What carries through into the omgevingsplan and the watertoets: Natura 2000, the national reservations for new autowegen, the Wkpb restrictions, beschermde gezichten, World Heritage and the archaeological and cultural-historical maps of the RCE, the flood defences, protection zones and peilbesluiten of the waterschap, the ROR risk areas and the province's drinking water protection. The omgevingsplan and the bestemmingsplan themselves are not available as a map layer; you read the rules in the Omgevingsloket.

Water

Everything you discuss with the waterschap and the province: the legger with flood defences, waterstaatswerken and protection zones, the normtrajecten of the primaire keringen, the peilbesluit areas, the KRW water bodies of Rijkswaterstaat, the ROR risk areas and the waterwingebieden, grondwaterbeschermingsgebieden and boringsvrije zones. Not every waterschap supplies every layer, so an empty result is no proof that no zoning applies.

My parcel

What burdens a parcel: the public-law restrictions from the Kadaster's Wkpb register, rijksmonumenten and beschermde groenaanleggen, beschermde gezichten and World Heritage, Natura 2000, the waterstaatswerk and the protection zone of the waterschap, the peilbesluit, the province's drinking water protection and the national reservations for new autowegen. Every hit refers to a decision or a register; obtain it before you assume that a restriction applies.

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