Mondego River Dikes May Collapse Due to Bad Weather

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The risk of fraud was acknowledged by the Portuguese Environment Agency and by the president of the Coimbra chamber. In Almada, land degradation in Porto Brandão forces people to withdraw.

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The Portuguese Environment Agency warned of the risk of collapse on Wednesday night and advanced to the withdrawal of thousands of people from their homes by prevention.

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Coimbra is one of the municipalities most affected by the bad weather that has been affecting Portugal for the past two weeks. Currently, there is a "significant risk" of a breach in one of the Mondego River dikes, causing concern among the population of that area. It should be noted that the Mondego River reached a risk level again this Wednesday, as it did on Saturday, with a water level above four meters at the Santa Clara bridge in downtown …

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National commander warned that there is “a significant risk of being able to exist some route in one of the dikes that go from the Coimbra area to the Foz Figeira. Cheais will continue

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Bento Aires, president of the Northern Region of the Order of Engineers, explains how the risk of collapse of the Mondego dikes could affect the population. "We are completely confident about any possibility, however remote, of collapse of our dams," he says.