To improve water management and to guarantee the preservation of alkaline fen habitats by optimising the water system in peatland, the nine LIFE Anthropofens beneficiaries have scheduled the following initiatives:

1. Improve knowledge of the way the sites work through an approach combining hydrology and ecology :

• To develop and implement training in eco-hydrological systems;
• Eco-hydrological studies on 8 sites;
• Monitoring of water levels and quality, alongside existing monitoring;
• Inventory of soils to identify and describe peat soils in the sites.

2. To promote water treatment before it arrives in peaty areas by fostering the development of aquatic plants :

• Reprofiling 1.2 km of riverbanks;
• Creating a 280 m ditch with an embankment;
• Setting up 250 m² of floating rafts with helophytic vegetations.

3. To maintain water levels for an adapted duration and period :

• Dredging 2.6 hectares of source areas;
• Introduction of 15 structures to regulate the water level (thresholds, cofferdams and sluice gates);
• Dredging brooks and streams (along 630 m);
• Removal of 4.8 km of drainage networks;
• Restoration of 2.8 km of waterways (removal of berms, reprofiling of riverbanks and creation of a stream bed).