Feeding area for priority catchments to combat diffuse agricultural pollution

At the conclusion of the Grenelle de l’Environnement, France’s objective was to protect the 507 most threatened drinking water abstractions by 2012 (Article 27 of the Law of 3 August 2009). Of the department 4 catchments were designated as priorities and included in the table of provision 6C-1 of the SDAGE Loire-Bretagne. For each of these catchments a prefectural decree prescribes a protection zone within which agricultural requirements must be complied with