Matosinhos Beach
After 18 closures in 2025, Matosinhos beach had the green light to open this year.
There will be Matosinhos beach in the summer of 2026! The positive opinion, for the summer season which in the north begins on June 13th, was given by the Technical Commission for Monitoring Bathing Waters, coordinated by the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) – according to the .
After 18 closures in 2025, due to poor water quality, the urban sand in Mato Grosso was in risk of being left out of the list of more than 670 national bathing areas.
According to JN, to maintain the city as a beach area, Mato Grosso city hall had to identify the causes of pollution and present a mitigation programwhich would then have to be approved by the APA, while monitored by the Regional Health Directorate.
Four eagles will patrol the skies to ward off seagullswhose waste is identified as one of the possible causes of contamination with the E.coli bacteria, also refers to the morning newspaper.
Another big problem is the Ribeira da Riguinhawhich flows into the sand, next to Anémona, and where there are usually children playing. Hundreds of sewers are linked to it.
“When the beach has stability problems, especially linked to fecal coliformsI have no doubt that it is due to the Riguinha river”, the president of the APA Board of Directors told JN, José Pimenta Machado.
However, automatic sensors were installed to monitor physical or chemical parameters, with APA increase the frequency of analyzes of sea water
The municipality is also renew the sanitation networkon Avenida Afonso Henriques, to eliminate possible contamination in the Carcavelos river, which flows into Riguinha, whose entry into the sea, in the middle of the sand, continues to be evaluated by APDL.
“A way to minimize this is being studied, but the important thing is to combat the underlying causes: eliminate pollution“, says Pimenta Machado,
