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Layer: Groundwater Vulnerability (ID: 26)

Parent Layer: Land and Soil

Name: Groundwater Vulnerability

Display Field: PERM

Type: Feature Layer

Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon

Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN>Groundwater is most at risk where the subsoils are absent or thin and, in areas of karstic limestone, where surface streams sink underground at swallow holes.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Groundwater vulnerability maps are based on the type and thicknesses of subsoils (sands, gravels, glacial tills (or boulder clays), peat, lake and alluvial silts and clays), and the presence of karst features.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>All land area is assigned one of the following groundwater vulnerability categories: Rock near surface or karst (X) Extreme (E) High (H) Moderate (M) Low (L). </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The Groundwater Vulnerability map indicates:</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The likelihood of groundwater contamination.</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Aids land-use management. </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Helps in the choice of preventative measures and enables developments, which have a significant potential to contaminate, to be located in areas of lower vulnerability. </SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Helps to ensure that a groundwater protection scheme is not unnecessarily restrictive on human economic activity.</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL><P STYLE="margin:0 0 14 0;"><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>

Service Item Id: 0f691b33aefc4f82aae14c378b1c83a5

Copyright Text: Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence

Default Visibility: false

MaxRecordCount: 2000

Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON, PBF

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Max Scale: 0.0

Effective Min Scale: 1000000

Supports Advanced Queries: true

Supports Statistics: true

Has Labels: false

Can Modify Layer: true

Can Scale Symbols: false

Use Standardized Queries: true

Supports Datum Transformation: true

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Drawing Info: Advanced Query Capabilities:
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HasM: false

Has Attachments: false

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Type ID Field: null

Fields:
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