Paulo Cunha / Lusa
Baths were banned in the north of the beach. City Hall admits sabotage in sanitation conduct. “Something that is not normal.”
The City Council of Nazaré is investigating the hypothesis of sabotage na sanitationafter the situation that banned the beach to bathsbut recognizes the need for urgent investment in a system of about 60 years.
“At this moment I don’t put it off [a hipótese de sabotagem]Because we have a set of factors that we will analyze and then realize if there is a matter to take this ahead, ”the mayor of Nazaré, Manuel Sequeira, (PS), (PS), following the clogging of sanitation conduct that led on Tuesday to the interdiction of bathing in the North Praia da Nazaré.
“We are gathering a set of information and realizing what is happening,” said the mayor of this municipality of the district of Leiria, recognizing that “There is a lot strange thing to pass: It is a fact that there are many people who know the system, so well, and, perhaps, some better than us, and it is a fact that we are feeling something that is not normal. ”
Concerned is a obstruction in sanitation conductnext to Manuel Arriaga Square, which provoked a EFFluent Scrubbinning for about an hour and a halfwhich determined the ban on the beach as a preventive measure.
The president of the municipality recognized the agency Lusa, however, the need for “a large investment in conduct, over 50 or 60”, No response capacity for the“ great tourist pressure ”that Nazareth faces at this time of year.
According to Manuel Sequeira, the situation is aggravated by the incorrect action of some people, “because It is not normal to get those kebabs of kitchen, smears, wipesAnd other materials that cause clogging.
The conduct is being the subject of a cleaning action, but “the problem is very difficult to resolve if it is not through a large investment”, which has already been done in the southern part of the system and has been postponed in the northern part, where in 2020 there was a similar case, “and during which conduct was removed, for example,” a beach towel “.
This is second interdiction From the beach to bathing since the beginning of the month, after on August 1 the baths were prohibited due to a discharge in rain sewage. Following that incident, 116 people were assisted at the Local Health Unit (ULS) of the Leiria region with symptoms related to water contamination.
This time “There is no record of people with symptomsthere should be no one, because the discharge was quickly detected, ”explained the mayor, who provides, by the end of Wednesday, the results of the analyzes requested to the National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge.
BE Version
In a statement, the Left Block (BE) warned, however, that, “according to locally collected information, There are records of people who needed hospital care ”.
Lusa questioned ULS Leiria about requests for assistance related to this incident, but has not yet received an answer.
These incidents confirm “that the old sewage conduct, whose connection to the sewage network It should not exist for several years, remains operational“, Which for the left block is” intolerable and endangers not only public health, but also the local economy, strongly dependent on bathing tourism. “
I do not communicate, or be required “o immediate and definitive closure of the old conduct Next to the corner of the stones, the urgent and secure adaptation of the Nazareth sewage system, in order to ensure that situations of this genre do not repeat, and public disclosure, with total transparency, of water quality analysis and ongoing corrective measures ”.
“The safety of the population and visitors should always be above any other consideration,” concludes Be, maintaining that Nazareth “cannot allow serious failures in the sanitation network to compromise the health of people and the image of … Earth as a tourist destination of excellence.”
