Beja / Serpa: Dams end of life give rise to farmland.
Misericordia dams (Beja) and Sardinha (Pias / Serpa) End of Life, They give rise to 20 hectares of farmland irrigated. Secretary of State for Environment was present in the tear opening operations in the body of dams.
The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (death) today began in Beja, in the Mercy dam, the infrastructure demolition process that reached the limit of useful life, integrated in the Global Strategy River Continuum Replacement, which will target other dams nationwide
The MAOT already identified eight dams that will be targeted for destruction, having been created in the National Water Council (CNA), a working group that will identify in more than 6.000 dam Portugal, another set that may deserve priority intervention and stop disrupting the flow of the river system ", justified Carlos Martins, Secretary of State for Environment, who was present in Beja and Pias (Serpa), tears in opening operations in the body of the dams of Mercy and Sardinha.
The Secretary of State showed that the study of the ANC working group "should be completed by the end of the first quarter 2017", identifying infrastructure to intervene with funds, "Public owners or funds", under the initiatives are "private or public" materialized.
The official explained that the strategy to demolish the dams "have been exhausted", It is intended to "make-up water lines" and characteristics of the "river systems, aquatic and riparian habitats ", concluded.
Carlos Martins justified the presence in these two actions with the fact the works of two infrastructure being "supported by entrepreneurs" and that while "return to the agricultural capacity", Twenty hectares of land (two in Beja and eighteen in Pias), which according to the Secretary of State, "Change the paradigm and vision of an important activity in Portugal and in the region", concluded.
"Changing the way of watering is only possible to address the infrastructure Alqueva", that allow move to the irrigated land in pressure ", finished.
André Casadinho, the dam owner of Mercy and neighboring lands, located in the parish and county Beja, revealed that "the intervention costs 50 a thousand euros", justifying this will allow "monetize two hectares of farmland", revealing that initially will "put an irrigation pivot and plant corn", and may subsequently revert to rape, A "cash crop", concluded.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
