The drought worsens in the South-Mayenne. No rain, a heat wave, the situation of the rivers is alarming in the sector. It is for this reason that the prefecture has decided to place the Oudon river basin on heightened alert.
Measures to restrict the use of water are therefore applied, “the irrigation of field crops, the watering of flower beds, sports and leisure grounds, green spaces, lawns and golf courses, the washing of vehicles, roads and facades, the filling or leveling of bodies of water, the filling of private swimming pools with a capacity greater than 1 m3 and the movement of valves on watercourses. The watering of vegetable gardens is prohibited during the day. The reasoned irrigation of plants by drip, by micro-sprinkling or in greenhouses is prohibited from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and prohibited on Sunday from 8 p.m. to Monday 10 a.m. The uses of water not strictly necessary for the production process or professional activity should be reduced as much as possible” details on its site the prefecture of Mayenne.
►► Communes concerned in the Oudon basin
Atheist, Ballots, Beaulieu-sur-Oudon, Bouchamps-les-Craon, Brains-sur-les-Marches, Chérancé, Congrier, Cosmes, Cossé-le-Vivien, Courbeveille, Craon, Cuillé, Denazé, Fontaine-Couverte, Gastines, La Boissière, La Chapelle-Craonnaise, La Roë, La Rouaudière, La Selle-Craonnaise, Laubrières, Livre-la-Touche, Loiron-Ruillé, Marigné-Peuton, Mée, Méral, Montjean, Niafles, Peuton, Pommerieux, Prée d’ Anjou, Renazé, St-Aignan-sur-Roe, St-Cyr-le-Gravelais, St-Erblon, St-Martin-du-Limet, St-Michel-la-Roe, St-Poix, St-Quentin-les-Anges , St-Saturnin-du-Limet, Senonnes, Simple.
In addition, the hydrographic territories of Mayenne upstream East and Mayenne median and downstream are on alert. The hydrographic territory of the upstream Sarthe is on the alert.