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Parliamentary Group
DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 29 /XI
IT RECOMMENDS THE GOVERNMENT TO REEQUATE THE PROFILING OF THE
A32 IN THE FREGUESIA OF WHITE, COUNTY OF ALBERGARIA-THE-
OLD
Exhibition of reasons
On December 30, 2008 was prowound, by dispatch of the
Secretary of State for the Environment, Statement of Environmental Impact
favorable to the nascent motif of the A32 Motorway in the White House freguesia, the
which was published on March 23, 2009. With this decision, the concelain of
Albergaria-a-Old and the roughly 6500 inhabitants of the White will be
severely penalized, as the chosen profiling will have impactes
environmental, social and economic very negative, in a freguesia that will stay
with three motorways within a radius of 7 kilometres.
The Environmental Impact Study (EIA) on the " Project of the IP3 Coimbra
(Mugemil) /Mealhada, IC2 Coimbra / Oliveira de Azemels (A32/IC2) and IC3
Coimbra/IP3 ", in the part that relates to the White's freguesia (Trecho 3,
from the Km 36 + 500 up to the Km 47 + 500), it has dealt with two
profiling alternatives: the Base trait, designated as "Solution 1", the
potent of EN1 / IC2 and the profiling designated as "Alternative 5" the nascent
from EN1 / IC2.
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The "Solution 1" fully develops in the channel space predicted in the
Municipal Director Plan (PDM) of Albergaria-a-Old and planned for more than
20 years by the Roads of Portugal, SA, for the profiling of the predicted variant
from the IC2 to the White's freguesia. This profiled is deployed in large part in the
freguesia of White, almost in its entirety in forest zone,
always developing the potent and in an appreciably parallel to the
IC2 / EN1. The topography of the terrain in this trait is uniform with slopes
too light to potent, representing a solution with reduced
land movement, little change of the landscape and few
reinstatement.
The profiling "Alternative 5" features more than 10 km extension and goes
from the industrial zone of Albergaria-a-Old to the southern area of the county of
Oliveira de Azemels, where a small variant with 2 km of
extension, named "Alternative 5 A", diverting the profiling from the place of
Alvians. This trait divides in the middle the Albergaria-a-Old industrial zone,
goes through forest zone, fully transposes the place of Fradelos in viaduct
high together with several residences, deploys along the potent hillside
of the White central zone and traverse the archaeological station of S. Julion.
The EIA privileged the "Alternative 5" and the "Alternative 5 A", despite this
represent the most irregular, longest, most expensive and the most expensive solution
implicate significant environmental, social and economic impacts in the
concelho from Albergaria-a-Old, in particular in the White House freguery. Note:
that this freguesia is already fragmented by the existence of two self-
roads (A1 and A29) that develop parallel, the scarce hundreds
from metres to each other, and with this option will stay with a third motorway to
aguer the problems that already exist.
The negative impacts that result from the choice of the said profiled are
very significant and will produce profound consequences at the level of the
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spatial planning, the quality of life of the population and the
preservation of the historical heritage of the White's freguesia.
In what concerns the impacts on spatial planning, they are from
refer to:
-The cross-cutting of the Albergaria-a-Old Industrial Zone, one of the
most important of the Aveiro region, which will provoke a buffer effect
to its growth to the North, negatively affecting development
of economic activities and the creation of employment;
-The cutting of the urban stain currently in growth in the freguesia of the
White, segmenting the socio-spatial continuity between its central axis
and the places that stay the nascent of the profiling (Fradelos, Palhal, Samuel,
Nobrijo and Espinheira), by the implantation of A32 on the central slope of the
freguesia and for the construction of a viaduct with 995 metre extension a
a high quota in place of Fradelos, which will be implanted by between
existing dwellings and under construction. In addition, the constant pendant of
6% of the inclination of the viaduct translates into a potential for claims more
high;
-The allocation of accessibility to EN1, in whose area it involves the
freguish White House has been polarizing social and cultural functions more
important, with the construction of various public equipment intended
to sport, health, education, leisure, social support and the existence of services and
of the trade;
At the level of environmental impacts it is governed that:
-The deployment of A32 in the potent strand of the central White hillside,
slightly below the line of cumin, in an extension of almost 3 km, goes
affect the fruition of a zone with a system of views on the complex
lagunar of the ria of Aveiro, negatively marking the landscape;
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-In this area there are several water springs, inspection points and
cleaning of the springs, mines, water mothers and water lines, the
confer a water richness to this area that will be affected with the
construction of this path. These water resources sustain activities
agricultural at the base of the hillside and center of the White and are even source of
domestic supply;
-The costs of moving and sustaining land will be as well
high, involving a profound alteration in the topography and the
local ecosystem;
-They are not to belittle the risks of contamination of the low zone
central to the White House for eventual accident on the via spill of products
toxic and dangerous;
-The impacts on noise level and air quality will affect the
quality of life of the residents of the area.
Regarding the conservation of historical heritage in the county, it is of
mention that the profiling will pass at the center of the archaeological station of the Monte
of S. Julion, which preserves vestiges of a prehistoric hamlet dating from the
Séc. II B.C., with more than 1000 artefacts and inscribed in the database of the
IGESPAR. The choice of this profiling will irreversibly damage this site
historical, important collective heritage and cultural enhancement factor
of the freguesia.
Considering all these impacts, the Ministry's option is not justified
of the Environment in issuing a Declaration of Environmental Impact (DIA)
favorable to the profiling the nascent, even more so when the EIA stipulates that, of the
21 aspects analyzed, Solution 1 is most suitable in 13 of them and the
Alternative 5 is more suitable only in 11 of them.
In addition, as it is common knowledge, civic participation in
around this whole process has been intense, presenting arguments and
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alternative solutions to the chosen trait. These solutions have been
constantly devalued by the Ministry and went totally
ignored in the decision of the DIA.
It is to be pointed out that the inhabitants of the White House freguesia constituted a
Commission for Monitoring the Construction of A32 / IC2 in the area of the
White and a civic association, the AURANCA-Association of the Environment and
Heritage of the White, having actively participated in the consultation phase
public of the project. After they were ignored by the Ministry, they delivered
in the Assembly of the Republic a petition with more than 4,200 signatures to
ask for the rejection of the dash-approved trait, having still resorted to a
popular action in court to suspend the proceedings and done several
protests with hundreds of people. Likewise, the City Hall of
Albergaria-a-Velha has been an active player in this whole process, in
support of the solution advocated by AURANCA, but without that it has been had
into account by the decision of the Ministry.
In mid-September the Government and the Roads of Portugal
have decided to annul the public contest of the Self-Highway subconcession of the
Center, which included the controversial A32 profiled of the White's freguery,
on the basis of the proposal of the Proposals Assessment Commission that
advising the non-award of the work due to the doubling of the value of the
same of the first, for the second phase of the contest.
The Government, wrongly, did not take this opportunity to
review A32's profiling in the White House freguesia, having already released the second
international public tender for the subgranting of these various lanes
of motorway.
The Left-wing Bloc advocates for the revocation of the decision to hire
relative to the Trecho 3 of the A32 motorway of the said public tender
international, pursuant to Article 80 (2) of the Code of Contracts
Public, approved by the Decree-Law No. 18/2008, of January 29, once
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that it is necessary to change fundamental aspects of the parts of the procedure
in what concerne this profiled, so that the same consags the solution more
favourable from the point of view of the promotion of quality of life of the
populations, the safeguarding of heritage, natural resources and landscape, of the
support for economic development and the creation of jobs in the region.
In the regimental and constitutional terms, the Assembly of
Republic, brought together in plenary, resolves to recommend to the Government that:
1-Revogue the decision to hire from the international public tender of the
Subconcession Highways of the Center in relation to the 3 Trecho of the auto-
road A32, proceeding to the alteration of the respective parts of the procedure
in such a way that the same disagrees a profiling solution with minors
environmental, social and economic impacts on the White's freguesia;
2-Proceed to the partial revocation of the Environmental Impact Statement of the
" Project of the IP3 Coimbra (Trouxemil) /Mealhada, IC2 Coimbra / Oliveira de
Azemels (A32/IC2) and IC3 Coimbra/IP3 ", excluding from its scope the Trecho 3
of the A32 motorway;
3-Diligencie the realization of a new Environmental Impact Study for the
profiled from A32 in Trecho 3, focusing with special attention since the Km
36 + 500 up to the Km 47 + 500, which should ponder several alternatives
road to road according to strict criteria on their costs and
environmental, social and economic impacts;
4-Promoting broad participation and public discussion on the
possible alternatives, so that the final choice of the profiling is in fact the
more favourable solution from the point of view of the promotion of quality of life
of the populations, the safeguarding of heritage, natural resources and the
landscape, as well as support for economic development and the creation of
jobs in the region.
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Assembly of the Republic, ... of November 2009
The Deputies and Deputies of the Left Bloc,