Objectives

The goal is to test built ecosystems to mitigate the impact of agriculture on surface waters. Polluted outflow from different areas of agricultural holdings represents one of the major sources of pollution of surface waters, and built ecosystems are an example of good practice of mitigating those effects. Measures are, from the point of view of the end user, important in two aspects: education (informing farmers of the importance of protecting water resources) and development (possibility of supplementary activities on farms). By implementing built-in ecosystems for intercepting the contaminated outflow, water is cleaned to a certain extent and, less polluted, then drained into watercourses.