The removal of sludge from the Tejo River is completed in one week – Portugal

Sludge removal work on the Tagus, next to the Portas de Ródão, will be completed within a week, after 75,000 cubic meters of organic matter have already been removed. 75,000 cubic meters have been removed so far, for a total of 90,000 cubic meters, so over the next week, the beginning of the next, we will complete this operation. Tejo, the river being clean, "explained to the press agency Lusa José Manuel Sardinha, president of the EPAL – Portuguese Business Council of the Books Águas.

This official s & 39 is expressed during a visit to the site promoted by the municipality of Vila Velha de Ródão and which brought together the members of the Municipal Assembly

The operation "Tejo Limpo", estimated at 1 , 7 million euros, began June 18.

"The sludge is being placed inside the geotube, with a water quality returned to the river of 39. excellent quality.

The head of the EPAL stressed that they were preparing for everything and that if there was a need, more geotube could be placed on the ground to store and dry the sludge removed of the Tagus.

"We are preparing for everything, basically, we also have the area available for, if you find more mud, if you use these spaces." This was not the case. contingencies. "

José Manuel Sardinha added that everything that was done in the old village of Ródão will be presented in October, in Japan, at the World Water Congress, an event that brings together more than five thousand water technicians from around the world.

The Mayor of Vila Velha de Ródão, Luís Pereira, explains that the operation is in a straight line

"It has been proven that not only was this operation justified, but that it was well planned and executed and I think that today we have every reason to be satisfied with the work that has been done here.And Vila Velha de Ródão gives a good example in this turn of the page that we do in the relationship with the Tagus, "he argued

. The mayor said that he always worried about being part of the solution

to be part of the solution and do our job. There was a lot of opportunism here, a lot of people who were always trying to give dramatic contours to the problem. We maintained the serenity we had to maintain and the concern to solve the problem so that the right solutions were found. That was our concern, "he concluded.