IRELAND · LAND-BASED SCHEMES · WATER
Nitrate Pollution Risk (High PIP)
What this layer shows
Where farmland is most likely to lose nitrate to water: the EPA's modelled critical source areas, showing the high band (ranks 1 to 3 of 7) that the EPA's own guidance targets, typically freely draining soils with moderate or high livestock intensity. A susceptibility model built from soils and land use, not a measurement and not a designation; nobody is in breach for farming inside one. Ranks 4 to 7 are not shown.
Publisher and licence
Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · CC-BY 4.0
© Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), CC-BY 4.0
Where the data comes from
WFS · gis.epa.ie
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Farming
Nutrient planning for Irish farms: where nitrate and phosphorus are most likely to reach water (the EPA's high-rank critical source areas), which agricultural pressure each sub-basin needs work on, groundwater vulnerability, soils, wells and septic-tank risk. Ireland runs a whole-territory Nitrates Action Programme, so risk grades come from these layers rather than from NVZ boundaries.