The project would have created a reservoir, with a volume of 1,500,000 m3 (53,000,000 cu ft), that could have been utilized to irrigate local farmland and control low water levels in the river Tescou.

In July 2016, the Toulouse administrative court annulled the three original purposes of the dam project, in particular the declaration of public utility.

The main actors of the project were the general council of Tarn region, Water Agency Adour Garonne, and the development company CACG.

In 2011, a collective called Tant qu’il y aura des bouilles was created to fight this project.

A policeman was charged in 2018 with a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ('violences volontaires') for throwing a grenade into a caravan where three people were sheltering.

[10]Rémi Fraisse, a 21 year-old botanist, was killed instantly by an OF-F1 fragmentation grenade[2] fired in the early hours of Sunday morning, 26 October 2014.

[5] In March 2015, the departmental council of Tarn voted narrowly in favour of building a dam and creating a reservoir further upstream, around half the size of the original project.