Catchment News

Home News EPA launch leaflet to highlight the Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool at National Ploughing Championship

EPA launch leaflet to highlight the Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool at National Ploughing Championship

The EPA have launched a new leaflet to help users who want to understand and use the Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool at the National Ploughing Championship 2024.

A new user-friendly EPA Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool is now available. The EPA Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool has key information that will help farmers and other landholders learn about their local water quality and what action needs to be taken.

Agriculture in Ireland has a significant role to play in helping the country to achieve good water quality targets as set by the Water Framework Directive.

Agriculture is the most common land use in Ireland, covering approximately 70% of the country, the majority of which is in pasture. Agriculture has been identified as the most prevalent significant pressure, impacting over 1000 waterbodies, or approximately 60% of all waterbodies At Risk of not achieving their environmental objective under the Water Framework Directive.

We're delighted to be on-site at the #Ploughing2024. Come and visit us the EPA stand (BLOCK 3 Row 11 Stand 173), where we can show you how to find out what water quality is like in your area and how you can help protect it. pic.twitter.com/rZYf6ILydU
— EPA Ireland (@EPAIreland) September 17, 2024

Learn about your local water quality and what you can do to protect and restore it

You can access the Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool here: https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/agriculture

The new EPA Targeting Agricultural Measures Mapping Tool has information under these menu headings:

Status & Monitoring
Targeting Agricultural Measures
Nitrogen/Freely Draining Soils
Phosphorus/Heavy Soils

This leaflet will show you how to use the tool and access information relevant to you.

The-EPA-Targeting-Agricultural-Measures-Mapping-Tool Download

About author

EPA Catchments Unit

Administrator

The EPA Catchments Unit is based in Dublin, and the team is involved with catchment science, chemistry, ecology, hydromorphology, modelling, Geographic Information Systems and planning. We work with the wider EPA, all of our local authorities, the Local Authority Waters and Communities Office, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, and other public bodies and Departments to ensure we have the best available data and information about our catchments.

Who is involved?
Quite simply, everyone in Ireland has a role to play. This can be from something as simple as making sure you don’t pollute your local stream, or a local community working together to establish a Rivers Trust to enhance the rivers and lakes in their area, to a Government Department or Agency helping a Minister implement a new policy to help protect and enhance all our water bodies.

This website has been developed and is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, and is a collaboration between the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Local Authority Waters Programme.

Local Authority Waters Programme

The Local Authority Waters Programme coordinates the efforts of local authorities and other public bodies in the implementation of the River Basin Management Plan, and supports local community and stakeholder involvement in managing our natural waters, for everyone’s benefit.

Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA is responsible for coordinating the monitoring, assessment and reporting on the status of our 4,842 water bodies, looking at trends and changes, determining which waterbodies are at risk and what could be causing this, and drafting environmental objectives for each.

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Department is responsible for making sure that the right policies, regulations and resources are in place to implement the Water Framework Directive, and developing a River Basin Management Plan and Programme of Measures to protect and restore our waters.