Water bodies on which to set up and manage buffer strips in accordance with PdGPo 2015-2021 Geo-Service-WMS

This WMS represents the water bodies identified as part of the Po River River River Management Plan (PdGPO 2015-2021), adopted on 17 December 2015 by Decision No 1 of the Institutional Committee of the Po Basin Authority and definitively approved in 2016, where, among the measures to protect surface waters aimed at mitigating the impacts related to agricultural activities, the establishment of vegetated buffer strips is permitted, according to specific technical manuals. In Piedmont there are 83 surface water bodies (i.e. stretches of watercourses, sometimes belonging to the same river) for which priority is provided for the realisation of the buffer strips vegetate.In some areas, such as along the sections of the 19 water cover falling within the Piedmontese rice area, it might not be possible to realise the riparian buffer strips. Similar pollution reduction results can be achieved by managing rice banks adjacent to watercourses without the use of chemicals.