Objectives

Through the LIFE REGENERA LIMIA Project, several demonstration solutions will be implemented in the A Limia Region, focused directly to reduce the presence of nutrients, mainly of agricultural and livestock origin, in the water bodies of the A Limia Region, in order to analyse the viability of a new approach that integrates preventive and regeneration measures in the Limia River, to fulfil the environmental objectives of the Water Framework Directive.

Consequently, the project requires the active and committed participation of the different actors:

Agricultural Sector

Livestock Sector

Environment

General Objectives Project
  • Show that a better environmental management of agricultural land is possible by optimizing the use of organic origin fertilisers through an integrated control system for the management of organic and chemical fertilisers in agricultural land. This means that it is possible to improve the economic results and minimize environmental risks.
  • Develop alternative solutions for the management of livestock waste and reduce its impact on the environment, betting on intensives artificial wetlands of macrophytes as a natural way of purification.
  • Prove that the environmental recovery of modified river bed and the regeneration and reconnection of lagoons systems are viable options that contribute to reduce the presence of nutrients in water and the eutrophication, while local ecosystems recover, especially transcendental in spaces included in the Natura 2000 Network.
  • Improve the information among the cattle and farmer collective and other professionals related to the agricultural sector on related issues to organic and chemical fertiliser uses, make aware of the effect they have on the land and water of the region.
  • Promote the extended impact of the results obtained, both locally and regionally, by involving all interested and making them participants, contributing to making the LIFE+ Instrument visible.
General Objectives Project

Action B1

SYSTEM OF INTEGRATED CONTROL OF CHEMICAL AND ORGANICS FERTILISERS MANAGEMENT IN AGRARIAN SOILS

The objectives to get in the 10 plots as a pilot action are:

0
30
%

Less chemical fertilisers

0
40
%

Less GGE

0
50
%

Less Organic Fertilisers

  • Reduction of an average of 30% of the use of chemical and organic fertilisers for each plot of potato, cereal and horticultural crop.
  • Reduction of an average of 50% in the use of fertilisers of each plot for pasture and grassland (liquid fertilisers of animal origin).
  • Reduction of 40% of greenhouse gas emissions because of a lower application to the soil of manures and slurries and nitrogenous mineral fertilisers.

Action B2

DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW COST ARTIFICIAL LAGUNAJE SYSTEM FOR SLURRIES TREATMENT

The objectives expected with this action are:

0
53
m3

53m3 slurry per day

  • Treat 53 m3 of slurry per day through the artificial wetland, which represents the waste generated by a total of 1.090 sows in a closed cycle, and present it like a prototype to the livestock sector.

Action B3

                                            RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION OF OLD ALUVIAL PLAIN OF LIMIA RIVER

The objectives to achieve the reduction of nutrients are:

0
15
%

Nitrates

0
15
%

Ammonium

0
15
%

Total Phosphorus

0
30
%

BOD5

0
5
HA

5 HA Recovery Plains

Action B4

RECOVERY AND INTEGRATION IN THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE OF ABANDONED SANDWICH PONDES FOR THE GENERATION OF A LAGUNAR SYSTEM THAT STRENGTHENS THE FILTRATION CAPACITY OF THE FLUVIAL COURSE

The objectives to achieve the reduction of nutrients are:

0
30
%

Nitrates

0
30
%

Ammonium

0
15
%

Total Phosphorus

0
30
%

BOD5

These two actions will seek to take advantage of the effect of assimilation and nutrient fixation of the vegetation river bank of the recovered channels to contribute to the reduction of the nutrients coming from the mixed farming of A Limia Region that arrive at the Las Conchas Reservoir. At the same time it contributes to recover what in the past was one of the best wet interior enclaves for waterfowl, herpetofauna and associated flora.

Objectives of the communication of the project

Develop a plan for environmental awareness and education and a communication and participation strategy. It seeks to inform and promote preventive measures of water pollution directed mainly to farmers, farmers and other professionals and technicians working in the sector, as well as other groups.

0
690

Participants in sensitization and training sessions on the impact of agricultural and livestock activity on water and on the management of agricultural fertilisers and waste in the region

0
300

Cattlemen, farmers and other professionals of the sector who have been informed of the actions through contacts, information days and meetings

0
300

Participants in seminars to disseminate the project