The Barrage of Bravura in the Lagos district of Faro is at 82% of its capacity, compared to 12% in the last decade, according to the president of the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA).
“You can say that in recent years we have seen this fire of 10%, 12%, 15% and now 82%. It is something that makes me very happy with the idea,” said José Pimenta Machado in Lusa.
The APA chairman also said that of the six existing dams in the Algarve, “this time we will take precautionary measures to ensure that we do not exceed the level we need to ensure the safety of the dams”.
“Bravura, one day you want to do it now. [descarga preventiva] as it is now at 82%. Keep breeding, keep suffering caudais. Today we will be going to six dikes in the Algarve, which are very historic, to do a pre-emptive removal of the safety problem,” we confirmed, knowing that “15 days from now or even less.
The response also increased that the Alqueva dam “exceeded 90%” and that in the Algarve, as six dams – Odelouca, Odeleite, Beliche, Funcho, Arade and Bravura – “it is on average at 89% or historic”, underlining the national average of 87%.
“The Algarve has more water in the media, which is a fantastic thing,” he said.
José Pimenta Machado believed that he was living “a very good year, no one doubts it”, in a thermos of water near the dams, and says that in January we are “in the full wet season” and that we still have fevers, Março and April “de mais chuva”.
“At this moment you are going to take the dikes to the water. When you are on two media, it is good to send the media, because at this moment – the fifth, sixth day, Saturday and Sunday – you go to swim in the dikes to learn more,” he explains, frisando, in the meantime not that I have dams now, I am happy and for the next storms I have little time to prepare.
Pimenta Machado also saw this as positive for the Algarve “continuation of water supply” and recommended the importation of the Querença–Silves water system, which is used in agriculture.
Responsibility reminds us that mainland Portugal keeps the forecast for the next few days, saying that right now we should “use the head of roadblocks”, but this has its limits, because “or it’s just locked, nothing can be absorbed and the shot turns into a departure and flows quickly to the Albufeiras”.
Pimenta Machado acknowledged the importance of the authority responsible for waters in Portugal to be in “careful contact” with the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), as well as with the municipalities and also with Spain, “where the rivers that cross the country are born”.
The president of the APA board made a point of the situation on the tails of the northern rivers in the country, saying that in the Rio Zêzere (the central region of the country) “the circular tails are very elevated” because “the buoy starts from the water that comes from the Serra da Estrela”.
“And now let’s get more. Not the same size as Joseph and Ingrid’s storms. See you, that’s Kristen. Traz muito wind, peak of everything, but let’s also get more chuv for a system that is already very saturated at this point”, he advanced, realizing that “the gesture will be more and more demanding”.
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