Article​​​​​​​ 134. Regime for carrying out economic activities in water protection zones, sanitary protection zones, and coastal areas

Lands included in water protection zones and sanitary protection zones are not withdrawn from land users and tenants, and are used by them in compliance with the requirements established in Chapter 24 of this Code, with the exception of the lands of coastal and sanitary-protective areas.

By the decisions of local executive bodies:

the coastal areas of rivers and other streams that do not dry up are granted to land users and tenants for carrying out ecological, nature protection, and other measures, as well as for the effective use of land plots;

the coastal areas of water management objects are granted to organizations that use these objects for the purpose of ensuring their use, reconstruction, repair, and restoration, the rational management and accounting of water resources, carrying out ecological and nature protection measures, and for the effective use of land plots.

Areas for soil mounds in the coastal areas of channels, irrigation, and collector-drainage networks may be granted for a limited term (temporarily) or leased on a contractual basis to farms and dehkan farms, as well as to other organizations, for the purpose of growing agricultural products by carrying out work on the removal and planning of soil mounds, as well as for using the soil mounds as building materials, in agreement with the user organizations. The land plots of the first zones of the sanitary protection zones of drinking and domestic water supply and mineral water sources, together with the land plots, are granted for use to the organizations that use the water intake and other structures for the construction of these structures in the prescribed manner. In the water protection zones of reservoirs and other water basins, rivers and other watercourses, as well as channels whose water is used for drinking and domestic water supply needs, the following are prohibited:

the use and burial of any type of toxic chemicals used against plant pests and diseases, and weeds;

the construction of warehouses for storing toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, and mineral fertilizers, sites for filling equipment with toxic chemicals, and airstrips for carrying out aerial-chemical work;

the construction of new residential and tourism complexes without centralized sewage disposal networks;

the construction of sewage treatment facilities and various types of sewage tanks (collectors);