The Chamber of Castro Marim will proceed with the supply of water to Pisa Barro de Cima, Pisa Barro de Baixo and Matos, three of the 17 villages in the parish of Castro Marim not yet served. The act of consignment of the work was signed, this Monday, March 28.
According to the municipality, “this intervention will allow the supply of water, in quantity and quality, putting an end to the unstable supply, achieved through underground abstractions that feed their own networks, private or from fountains”.
This work represents an investment of over one million euros.
«The water supply will be carried out from the extension of the municipal distribution network currently existing and in expansion, based on two alternative sources, the Monte Francisco Reservoir and the Cabeço Reservoir, integrated in the Multimunicipal Water Supply System. Água do Algarve, under the responsibility of Águas do Algarve, SA», explains the Municipality of Castro Marim.
This project was approved by the PO SEUR program, supported by Portugal and the European Union, 82,04% co-financed by the Cohesion Fund.
«We are in a territory where one of the largest water retention systems in the Algarve, Odeleite and Beliche, is installed, and which, ironically, has an aggravated problem of a disjointed public intervention that left dozens of villages in the surrounding area without water in the taps, only with water in sight!”, underlines Filomena Sintra, vice-president of the Chamber.
The mayor also highlights the work carried out in 2020, which extended the network to more than 30 villages in the parishes of Azinhal and Odeleite.
According to the Câmara de Castro Marim, «this area of the county is almost coastal, has a greater population dynamics and this is a determining factor to increase it. Other population centers also depend on the construction of a water delivery point by Águas do Algarve, namely the Cerro do Enho delivery point, without which there will not be sufficient pressure and flow”.
The Municipality guarantees that “it will continue with the policy of extending the drinking water supply network to the agglomerates not yet served, and for this it depends on the contracting of community funds, which are increasingly scarce for this type of investment”.
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