Land and Water use section services rendered to public.

TONY BORG (Senior Agricultural Officer)

Telephones: 25904260, 25904133, 25904107

Fax: 25904207.

Farmers/Land Registration

All farmers and the land they cultivate are registered in records kept in this Section. The farmer is issued with a Farmers' Registration Card (F.R.C.), which he will be asked to produce whenever necessary.

Assessments for Compensation for Loss of Crops

Assessments to compensate farmers for damages incurred during infrastructure works are made whenever the Department carrying out the work makes a request. These works usually consist of trenches, erection of electricity poles, road widening and such developments.

Soil Preservation

This Section is responsible to safeguard against illegal dumping and rendering soil infertile, according to the Preservation of Fertile Soil Act (1973)

Land Reclamation

This Section caters for the clearing and storing of fertile soil and even supplying farmers when available.

Sant' Antnin Sewage Treatment Plant

This Section is also responsible for the distribution of the plants' effluent to the local farmers. It controls the distribution of water from the five main reservoirs to the channels that lead to the farmers fields.

The area covered by this system is of around 300 hectares in the limits of Zejtun, Marsascala and Zabbar. An average of 6000 to 7000 m3 of effluent is distributed daily.