Upper Guadiana

[25931]

I've just read that the navy is carrying out a survey between Alcoutim and Pomarão which is due to be completed by the 19th. As they talk about increasing safety for leisure sailors and tourism I presume that they intend to install some buoys.

 

[GHA]

I've just read that the navy is carrying out a survey between Alcoutim and Pomarão which is due to be completed by the 19th. As they talk about increasing safety for leisure sailors and tourism I presume that they intend to install some buoys.

Yep, that's the word on the street. More pillars buoys going in. Why bother, say most, not like it's difficult.........some budget to get rid of maybe..

 

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Why bother, say most, not like it's difficult.........some budget to get rid of maybe..

Exactly. Money would be better spent clearing the birdsh*t off the pontoon at Mértola.

 

[GHA]

Exactly. Money would be better spent clearing the birdsh*t off the pontoon at Mértola.

Still Portuguese bureaucracy is a bit like quantum mechanics, - it works but no one understands how and it's quite strange...

 

[25931]

Still Portuguese bureaucracy is a bit like quantum mechanics, - it works but no one understands how and it's quite strange...

The tourism lobby is quite influencial so the authorities are saying that this is for the convenience and safety of tourism boats.

 

[nortada]

The tourism lobby is quite influential so the authorities are saying that this is for the convenience and safety of tourism boats.

Any reported incidents of tourist boats having problems?

 

[GHA]

Any reported incidents of tourist boats having problems?

Suspect he knows the way by now

 

[lusitano]

I've just read that the navy is carrying out a survey between Alcoutim and Pomarão which is due to be completed by the 19th. As they talk about increasing safety for leisure sailors and tourism I presume that they intend to install some buoys.

https://algarvedailynews.com/news/1...im-sanlucar-bridge-between-portugal-and-spain

 

[GrahamM376]

https://algarvedailynews.com/news/1...im-sanlucar-bridge-between-portugal-and-spain

These proposals always appear in the run-up to elections. Lost count of the number of times we've heard this one.

 

[RAI]

https://algarvedailynews.com/news/1...im-sanlucar-bridge-between-portugal-and-spain

I wonder what the bridge clearance will be?
Was there a connection between the placement of the navigation marks and the reduction in moored boats at Foz de Od.?

 

[25931]

These proposals always appear in the run-up to elections. Lost count of the number of times we've heard this one.

I am sure that we have no more elections due this year and the paper said that the work has started.

 

[GrahamM376]

I am sure that we have no more elections due this year and the paper said that the work has started.

No doubt we'll hear from a resident before long but no sign of bridge works as far up as Alcoutim/SanLucar 3 months ago when we were up the river.

 

[Ludd]

No doubt we'll hear from a resident before long but no sign of bridge works as far up as Alcoutim/SanLucar 3 months ago when we were up the river.

I suspect you are at cross purposes here!
The Navy has actively been surveying from Alcoutim to Pomerao. Any pillar buoys will reduce anchoring possibilities and give us light pollution, as they have already done.below Alcoitim. At Fox, when they marked the channel,some boats had to move. The will happen upstream.
The bridge proposal was only decided on.in October, so I doubt if anything has happened yet!
Not there at mo, back in LaLa Land.

 

[jeanne]

A fellow SanLucar resident was upset by the newspaper report, and went to talk to Pepe, the Alcalde, about it. He says that Pepe was very relaxed about it, and said that "there´s no money for it". It is true that a high level bridge would be extremely expensive. The river is about 200 metres wide, and the hills that would be the starting points are about as much again.
Then Pepe started talking about HIS pet project, which is a low level footbridge, with an opening span to allow passage to boats!

 

[GrahamM376]

Then Pepe started talking about HIS pet project, which is a low level footbridge, with an opening span to allow passage to boats!

They could always run another zip wire, this time from Portugal to Spain