NOVA University researchers found Trichobilharzia franki, a bird parasite whose larvae cause itchy rashes in swimmers, in snails on the Alqueva shore at Campinho. They want monitoring at the reservoir's recreational sites.
After a summer of cut-offs on the Caparica coast, Almada and Seixal will sign a borehole licence in October, and an agreement with EPAL opens a study of a supply link from Lisbon. The Environment Minister says the new airport makes a resilient peninsula supply urgent.
The Environment Agency's bulletin for 21 September puts national storage at 74 percent, but every basin is above its September average except the Lima, the Vouga and the Mondego. Less hydro means more gas, the minister said, and gas is very expensive.
ERSAR published the Regulamento Tarifario dos Servicos de Aguas on Thursday. It binds state and municipal operators alike, fixes the domestic bands at 0 to 5, 5 to 15, 15 to 25 and above 25 cubic metres, and bans charges for signing a contract or installing a meter.
The council found Legionella pneumophila at the Estádio de Sobrado and Legionella spp at a school pavilion in Ermesinde, both during scheduled quarterly testing, with nobody reported ill. Which is precisely why, under Lei 52/2018, neither is legally an outbreak.
The Hyperion project near the Alvega roundabout has a unanimously favourable municipal opinion and Project of National Interest status. Quercus calculates that at full capacity it and the EDC ONE site at Pego would draw about 2.8 TWh a year, close to 19 times what Abrantes uses.
When a septic tank is allowed, the 20 metre sewer rule, sealed tanks versus soakaways, who empties your tank, and what to do when the mains sewer arrives.
