The Environmental Impact Study relating to the “Evolution of the Coastline – Implementation Project for the Restructuring of the Quarteira Breakwaters”, which is also related to the artificial beach nourishment project, is open for public consultation until 17 October.
To what Sul Informação found out, this project, despite being independent of the artificial beach nourishment project on the Quarteira-Garrão stretch, is also linked to that operation.
Basically, they are complementary projects.
This restructuring operation of the Quarteira breakwaters will contribute, according to Loulé Council, “to the protection of the coastline and its populations from risks, especially coastal erosion”.
«With this project, we aim to define an intervention that will allow us to improve the sedimentary dynamics of the Quarteira section, analyzing the change in the existing design of the spurs, taking into account the environmental impacts, as well as the human and economic activities that take place there and that depend on the functioning of this restructuring», he adds.
According to the non-technical summary of the Environmental Impact Study, the objective of Loulé Council is to “resize the field of six spurs and/or carry out other types of works to reduce the effects of storms and rising sea levels”.
After analyzing several scenarios, this EIA comes to the conclusion that removing two spurs and extending two others by 80 meters will be the best solution.
Regarding the other project to artificially nourish the beaches on the Quarteira-Garrão stretch, I have already brought the Minister of the Environment recently visited the Algarve.
This operation, with a total approved investment of 14,3 million euros, consists of the artificial feeding of this section, over an extension of 6,6 kilometres, combining the replacement of sand with the protection of the cliffs.
The initiative also comes after a tThe storm over the Easter weekend caused part of the sand at Praia do Forte Novo to disappear and partially destroyed the walkways.
Even so, the bad weather did not prevent people from going to the beach this summer, although with restrictions.
The sand was smaller than in previous years – which meant that the concession that operates on that beach also had to be reduced, as well as the umbrella area – and access was different.
The retreat of the coastline, the reduction in the width of the beach, flooding in the low-lying areas of the Quarteira coastline, the degradation of coastal infrastructure, namely the six existing groynes, erosion and dismantling of sandy cliffs and dunes, destruction of urban buildings (Vale do Lobo; Forte Novo), in addition to the systematic rise in the average sea level, with predictions of a strong increase in the coming decades, are the most frequent phenomena on the Quarteira coastline, whether due to extreme weather events or the disorder of urban occupation.
Anyone who wants to participate in the public consultation can do so here
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