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60% of the Raia Termal project implemented

Adm_rt — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:33:43 +0000

The budget of this European plan exceeds 2.6 million euros

The cross-border cooperation project “Raia Termal”, approved in 2017 with a budget of 2.6 million euros for actions in the towns of Bande, Cortegada, Lobios and Muíños in Ourense and the Portuguese towns of Melgaço and Terras de Bouro, has reached 60% of the programmed actions. This was endorsed yesterday by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, after the fifth meeting of the board of directors which, due to the coronavirus pandemic, was held telematically and was attended by the president of the Hydrographic Confederation himself, José Antonio Quiroga, and Plácido Alvarez, vice-president of the Ourense Provincial Council. The representatives of the Portuguese chambers of Melgaço and Terras de Bouro apologised for their absence, due to urgent matters of management of the pandemic

In the session, those present analysed the material and immaterial projects carried out to date, as well as the imminent completion of the works referring to the construction of a connection footbridge in Os Baños, in the bed of the Caldo river in Lobios; as well as the waste water treatment plant in the area of O Corgo.

Eight months before the end of the European project, set for 31 September, a formula has begun to be assessed so that the partners, once the project is completed in September of this year 2021, commit themselves to supervising the actions carried out for at least three years, although in this case without European funding.

The board highlighted the completion in recent months of the rehabilitation work on the Casa do Baño and the creation of a motor home area in Bande; the improvement and signposting of the Terras de Cortegada Thermal Route; the construction of a removable waterwheel on the River Caldo or the construction of a thermal cycle path in A Devesa, within the municipality of Lobios; and in the municipality of Muíños, the construction of access to the river beach of O Corgo from O Rañadoiro, the adaptation of the path to the power station in Salas or the construction of the path to the Illa de Pazos.

On the other side of the “raia” the cleaning of the water lines and the rehabilitation of the floodgates of the fluvial space of the Termas do Peso, the tree recovery of the Parque do Peso, the placement of underground containers for waste, the creation of a “fitness” park or the rehabilitation of the parking area of the thermal baths in Melgaço have been undertaken. In Terras de Bouro, the project has allowed the recovery, improvement and conditioning of the banks of the River Gerés or the demonstration area of aromatic and medicinal plants.

The basin organisation also highlighted the importance of implementing intangible investments, including the project’s website and the maintenance of the project’s social networks, the carrying out of a study in which more interesting tourist products for the area have been defined, and a promotional campaign that is being designed, and will be seen in the coming months, which includes an English style bus-Office Raia Termal. We are also working on the purchase of equipment and the design of a joint marketing platform.

Original article: La Región

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The Municipal Chamber of Terras de Bouro continues the works of “Requalification of the Gerês River and Creation of the Garden of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants – Banco do Ramalho” included in the Interreg- POCTEP Thermal Ray project

Adm_rt — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:50:06 +0000

The contract was signed on 4 May last between the President of the Municipal Chamber of Terras de Bouro, Manuel Joao Sampaio Tibo, and the company José Firmino da Silva Ferreira; Lda, the works of “Requalificação do Rio Gerês e Criação do Jardim de Plantas Aromáticas e Medicinais- Banco do Ramalho”, which will involve an investment of 358,094.82 euros, are progressing at a very good pace.

These actions are included in the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal programme (POCTEP) which promotes cross-border cooperation projects with the support of the European Union.

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PORTUGAL AND SPAIN STRENGTHEN THEIR COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF WATER

Adm_rt — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:04:24 +0000

Spain and Portugal are coordinating their hydrological planning and flood risk management processes, and will carry out joint public participation activities on these throughout 2021.

Source: Retema

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SPANISH-PORTUGUESE AGREEMENT TO COMBAT FLOODS AND DROUGHTS

Adm_rt — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:57:49 +0000

Spain and Portugal are strengthening their cooperation on water issues in order to jointly address drought and flooding plans in shared basins and to mitigate the impact of climate change on the waters that unite us.

Source: el Ágora diario

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SPAIN AND PORTUGAL TO SET UP A WORKING GROUP ON DROUGHTS AND FLOODS IN SPANISH-PORTUGUESE RIVER BASINS

Adm_rt — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:47:02 +0000

The Commission for the Implementation and Development of the Albufera Convention (CADC) for the protection and joint development of the basins of Spain and Portugal agreed on Wednesday at a telematics meeting to set up a working group on droughts and floods in the river basins shared by the two countries: Miño-Limia, Duero, Tagus and Guadiana.

Source: COPE

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A cycle path will link Vilameá with the Lobios thermal area

Adm_rt — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:03:24 +0000

The Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, an autonomous body under the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, has just published the tender notice for the construction of a cycle path between the towns of Os Baños de Riocaldo and Vilameá, in the municipality of Lobios.

The action, included in the European project “Raia Termal” financed by the program Interreg V-A of cross-border cooperation (POCTEC), has a budget of 173.000 euros and a term of execution of three months.

Source: La Región

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Investment of 300.000 € in the project “Raya Termal” in Lobios Town Hall

Adm_rt — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:22:49 +0000

José Antonio Quiroga, president of the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation (CHMS), an autonomous body dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition, and the mayoress of Lobios, Maria del Carmen Yañez, signed the collaboration agreement that makes possible the works that the CHMS is going to carry out in the municipality of Lobios (Ourense), within the European cross-border cooperation project (POCTEP) “RAYA TERMAL”.

Source: Dende A Limia

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Lobios advances in the execution of the Raia Termal project

Adm_rt — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:16:03 +0000

The Hydrographic Confederation Miño-Sil will be able to initiate the works of the European project of cross-border cooperation Raia Termal thanks to the agreement signed this Tuesday with the Concello de Lobios, whose object is to determine the conditions that will govern the financing, making available of the lands, execution and the regime of the later delivery for the maintenance of the facilities contemplated in the proposal. This is the document signed by the president of the basin organization, José Antonio Quiroga, and the Councillor of Lobios, Mari Carmen Yáñez.

The actions have a budget of more than 300,000 euros, an amount that will be assumed in its entirety by the Hydrographic Confederation. 75% of the funds will come from the Raia Termal programme, while the remaining 25% will come from the organisation itself.

Source: La Región

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The CHMS will build the project “Raia termal” in Lobios

Adm_rt — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:02:43 +0000

The president of the Hydrographic Confederation of Miño-Sil (CHMS), an autonomous body under the Ministry for Ecological Transition, José Antonio Quiroga, and the mayor of Lobios, María del Carmen Yáñez, signed yesterday the collaboration agreement that makes possible the works that the CHMS is going to carry out in this municipality within the European cross-border cooperation project (POCTEP) “RAIA TERMAL”. The total investment required for the set of actions is estimated to exceed 300,000 euros.

The purpose of this agreement is to determine the conditions governing the financing, provision of land, execution and subsequent delivery regime for the maintenance and upkeep of the works and installations contemplated in the project, construction of a weir and a footbridge, a track cycle and sanitation works.

Source: Faro de Vigo

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Melgaço leads Iberian project that seeks to connect six municipalities through thermal networks

Adm_rt — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:09:11 +0000

Melgaço, in the high Miño, has concluded all the works that it presented to the project Raia Termal – that involves six Portuguese and Galician municipalities located in the basins of the rivers Miño and Lima – and prepares to begin to promote the thermal destination.

“We can say that Melgaço is, of the Galician and Portuguese municipalities, which have the execution done. We will be with an execution of 70%, in an investment of 250 thousand euros”, said today the president of the Chamber of Melgaço, Manoel Batista.

With a budget of nearly two million euros, the Raia Termal project is developed within the scope of the INTERREG VA Spain-Portugal Cooperation Programme (POCTEP) 2014-2020 and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). Coordinated by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, it integrates, on the Spanish side, in the province of Ourense, the municipalities of Cortegada, Lobios, Bande and Muíños.

In the north of Portugal, the municipalities of Melgaço, in the Viana del Castillo district, and Tierras de Bouro, in the Braga district, are part of the Peneda-Gerês National Park (PNPG). In Melgaço, the socialist mayor advanced that the project of valorization of the thermal natural resources has a total budgetary endowment of 370 thousand euros.

Manoel Batista guaranteed “all the physical actions are implemented” – proposals – “the requalification of the thermal park, the arrangement of the parking zone next to the entrance of the park, the transformation of the minigolf field into a fitness zone to complete the offer and the substitution of the lake portals next to the park”.

Source: Observador.pt

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