The dredging of the Guadiana River bar will proceed after the agreement reached between the Portuguese authorities and the Andalusian government to carry out this long-requested work. The objective is to recover a depth of 3,5 meters, to ensure the river's navigability, and it is expected that the work will be completed "after the bathing season of the current year".
The memorandum of understanding that "enables the "Consejería de Fomento y Vivienda" to carry out the conservation dredging of the Barra do Rio Guadiana, which will affect the points of the river where navigation is currently the most difficult", was signed last Friday , announced the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDRA).
“The Andalusian Ports Agency will move forward to contract the dredging work, budgeted at 1 million euros, which has an impact on the sedimentation zone of the mouth of the Guadiana, which hinders the navigation of vessels from both countries,” said that entity.
The objective is to recover a minimum draft of 3,5 meters deep, for which it is intended to extract more than 50.000 cubic meters of material from the bottom of the sea. Part of the good sands will be used to replenish the nearby beaches and the rest deposited on the high seas.
In addition to the memorandum, the Portuguese and Spanish authorities also signed the amendment to the application of the “Guadiana, Um River Navegável” Transfrontier project, approved under the POCTEP – Operational Program for Transfrontier Cooperation Spain – Portugal, to guarantee the execution of the work and the co- -European funding.
The president of CCDRA David Santos had already announced the signing of this agreement during a debate «Made in Algarve», held last week in Vila Real de Santo António. The Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission was the body that intermediated this entire process between the Portuguese and Andalusian authorities, a project that aims to strengthen institutional, cultural, sporting and economic relations between the two cross-border regions.
The agreement now signed was signed by the director of the Public Agency for Ports of Andalusia Miguel Paneque and by the director general of Natural Resources, Security and Maritime Services of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Sea Miguel Sequeira.
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