The Council of Lisbon plans to invest by 2030, more than EUR 169 million in the implementation of Drainage Master Plan. About a third of this amount will be spent on construction of two tunnels, one of Campolide and Santa Apolonia and the other in Chelas, with whom they want to divert the Tagus water flows of low-lying areas of the city.
The bulk of this document, the result of a plan approved by the council in 2008 review, was made known on Monday at a press conference. At the time, the municipality’s president held that this “is surely the most important and structuring project in decades for the future of Lisbon” and stressed that his main goal is “to combat floods and floods and the consequences they have on life families and companies. “
Remember that the full phenomena” have gained strength, “and that their frequency” has increased, “Fernando Medina stated that the plan to be implemented will” significantly reduce the risks filled “. “The program does not eliminate altogether, as no program can do, the occurrence of floods,” noted however, speaking before a “sharp reduction in the number of events that begin to occur in the city.”
Fernando Medina expectation is that “after about four years,” feel in Lisbon “first results” of the plan that will now be set in motion. This Wednesday the camera discussing at a meeting behind closed doors, a proposal to “approve submitted to public discussion,” the document discussion that the mayor wants to extend “until the end of September.”
Up in 2030 it is expected an investment of 169.174 million euros, of which 97.354 million will be invested by 2020. According to the mayor, “an important slice” of the investment will be supported with “own resources of the camera,” “fruit of your financial situation and updating of sanitation fees. ” For the rest, the expectation of the socialist mayor is to be financed with EU funds.
On behalf of the consortium HYDRA / ENGIDRO companies, which developed the original drainage plan and its revision, José Saldanha Matos He explained that this new version allows “greater protection of persons and property” than the previous one. This is because, he explained, are avoided in some cases “works and interventions in low-lying areas and busy” as the “disconnect collectors” and the construction of large underground reservoirs, are opting before by “diverting flows to more favorable sites, to areas where they have no impact or have a minor impact. “
In this sense, it is to be built between mid-2016 and the end of 2019, two tunnels. One of them will, according explained in a video projected at the press conference, call Monsanto to Santa Marta and Santa Apolonia. With a length of about five kilometers and a diameter of five meters, this tunnel will start by the Campolide railway station and ending near the Military Museum, and the final section to the Tagus river run “in open trench.”
According to the camera, this work “will divert storm flow of Alcantara channel, as well as intercept and divert the flow of the basins of the avenues of Liberty, Duke of Loulé and Almirante Reis,” benefiting “the streets of St. Joseph, St. Anthony Gates, Rossio, Martim Moniz, Figueira Square and in general all Low. ” This tunnel, summed Fernando Medina, will be “a major barrier, a wall, which will limit access to the lower part of the water flow city.”
A second tunnel, with a kilometer long, will connect the intersection of Chelas road with the Walk of Picheleira the Street of the Friends of Lisbon, near Sugar Street, from where it will “in open trench “to the river.
In addition, to respond to floods checked at the intersection of Berlin Avenue and Avenida Infante D. Henrique, the camera provides building until mid-2018,” an increase manifold ” 2.5 meters in the area.
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