Aigues-Mortes Salt Marshes
Maintenance and preparing salt tables
- Repairing of the irrigation gates which allow water to pass from one salt table to another.
- Levelling of the salt tables to let the future deposit of salt to be removed easily.
February & March
Water management and salt production
- First water filling of the salt tables with the concentrated sea water
which has been stored in the reserve basins since the month of September of the previous year - Sea water pumping
- Salt crystallization
- July: the harvest of Fleur de Sel
April to September
Harvest and preparation of the following harvest
- Harvest of the salt cake deposited at the bottom of the salt tables.
- Water filing of the storage basins for next years's harvest.
September
Rest for the salt tables
- Desalting of the salt tables with the autumn rains
- Maintenance of the dykes and the salt marshes
October to February