Municipality of São Brás de Alportel with new contract to improve forest paths
The Municipality of São Brás de Alportel has a new project underway for the improvement of forest and agricultural paths and for the construction of aqueducts, which aims to ensure the accessibility of rural paths and access to water points. This new contract, in a municipal investment and 27,939.00 €, was awarded to the company AJB – António José de Brito, provides for the execution of aqueducts and the improvement and repair of about 50 kms of forest paths throughout the mountainous area of the são-brasense territory.
These works, carried out on a regular basis, aim at improving the daily network and protecting the forest, constituting an important axis of the Municipal Fire Prevention Strategy. Alongside all the roadside cleaning interventions, the large investment in the execution of fuel management lanes and the land clearing along the main roads of the highlands and Barrocal, these works are of the utmost importance in prevention as enable Civil Protection agents to intervene more effectively, safely and quickly.
These works also aim to ensure better access to existing properties, thus facilitating the owners to carry out the cleaning and maintenance actions, which are so important in the defense of the forest, as well as obtaining agricultural products. The project is part of the Municipal Forest Defense Plan and is the result of the evaluation carried out by the Municipal Civil Protection Service, in cooperation with the hunters’ associations, the São Brás de Alportel Voluntary Firefighters Humanitarian Association and the community.
