The PCP of Ovar said Tuesday that agricultural land and roads in the Marinha area, in that municipality of the Aveiro district, continue to be flooded by salt water, even after works aimed at preventing the flooding of these lands.
It is a lagoon area where, between 2019 and 2021, the company Polis Litoral Ria de Aveiro carried out works on “Transposition of Sediments for Optimization of the Hydrodynamic Balance”, part of a global undertaking that, involving 95 kilometers of the municipalities of Ovar, Murtosa, Ílhavo and Mira, cost 21.6 million euros, according to data from Polis itself to Lusa in June of last year.
Now, based on contacts with residents and farmers, the Ovar communist structure says: “The population of the Navy remains unsatisfied because their agricultural land and roads continue to be flooded by salt water”.
Recalling that the problem has existed “for more than a decade”, the PCP declares that the intervention of the Polis did not solve it. “With the completion of the ‘Transposition of Sediments for the Optimization of the Hydrodynamic Balance’ project, which aimed to solve a set of problems in the Aveiro estuary, including those that afflict the Navy, it can be concluded that none has been resolved,” he defends Party.
The same political structure gives examples: “Agricultural land continues to be flooded by brackish water, destroying its production; the roads are still flooded by the waters of the estuary, making it difficult to access some homes and even, in extreme situations, isolating some homes for hours; and many houses remain under threat of flooding.”
The PCP also highlights that, “due to the redefinition of the Public Hydraulic Domain, cultivation areas were lost to the estuary without any measures being taken to replace this loss” and to compensate farmers.
The “Transposition of Sediments for Optimization of the Hydrodynamic Balance in the Ría de Aveiro” project, also known as “Ría de Aveiro Drainage”, began in April 2019 and was carried out by the consortium between the companies Etermar, MMAS and Rohde Nielsen, intended to dredge around one million cubic meters of sediment in the Ovar, Murtosa, Ílhavo and Mira channels.
Lusa asked Polis Ria de Aveiro for clarification on the current floods to which the PCP refers, but received no response.
Source: Observadora
