Perimeters of immediate protection surface capture

Perimeters of protection for water abstractions for human consumption (Ordinance 702-2009). The ordinance establishes the respective conditions to the capture perimeters. The immediate protection zone shall be delimited in such a way as to cover an area defined in the water plane and in the adjacent river basin, which depends on: the morphological characteristics of the body of water in which the abstraction is located; (ii) the greater or lesser pressure of anthropogenic activities in the draining catchment basin; in areas under immediate protection, the following activities shall be prohibited: all secondary activities such as motor navigation, water sports, bathing and fishing, with the exception of vessels intended for the collection of water samples for quality monitoring and maintenance of catchment infrastructures; the discharge of any type of effluent of domestic and industrial origin into the water plane and the land area which form part of the immediate protection perimeter.