The company Águas do Algarve SA launched the public tender «Adaptation of the Figueira Port Road to the level of the Odelouca Dam – Railway Line Bridge and Water Line Aqueduct and Complementary Works», with the base value of 130.000 euros.
The work is intended to end the isolation to which the populations of Porto da Figueira and Vale Grande, in the parish of São Marcos da Serra, were voted on when the dam was completed and the consequent rise in the water level of the Ribeira de Odelouca.
According to Águas do Algarve, the project aims to adapt the Porto da Figueira path to the level of the Odelouca Dam reservoir, in the areas of the Railway Line Bridge and waterline aqueduct, the paving of the EM 267 and the routing of rainwater to the existing water line.
The company recalls that, with the completion of the Odelouca Dam and the rise in the level of the river, the access previously used for Porto da Figueira and Vale Grande was submerged, demanding that the populations of these two locations «have to travel a greater distance to to go to the parish seat».
«In order to minimize this situation and in order to meet the population's pretensions, Águas do Algarve SA started a set of studies aimed at the execution of the elevation of the access road quota to the quota of 100,50, as well as the wall and aqueduct of the existing water line and adjoining the railway line», adds the company.
The rehabilitation of an extension of 2000 meters of the EM267 was also contemplated, as a "degradation compensation measure" carried out by the works carried out by Águas do Algarve, namely the contracts "Adaptation and Protection of the Railway Line, Railway Bridge and Road Bridge interfered by the Odelouca Dam Reservoir, Construction of the Sapeira Bridge and the Access between the Crowning of the Odelouca Dam and the Water Intake of the Odelouca/Funcho Tunnel” and “Reestablishment of Paths affected by the Odelouca Reservoir”.
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