Africa-Press – Angola. The Ministry of Public Works, Urbanism and Housing will propose to the Executive the preventive intervention of ravines, to combat this phenomenon with less costs and reduce the danger they pose to people and infrastructures, informed the head of the sector, Carlos Alberto dos Saints.
Speaking to the press on Saturday in the city of Dondo, the minister clarified that the institution will propose to the Executive “an inversion in the process of intervention of ravines in the country, which involves preventive intervention instead of focusing on stagnation, already in a state of progression high”.
To this end, he continued, local entities will be trained in the process of timely identification of ravine formation, as well as local bodies in the ministry, to intervene with means in erosions in the formation phase.
This plan aims to prevent the ravines from entering a phase of progression, he said.
“We think it is time to propose an investment in training at local level, to combat this phenomenon”, he maintained, indicating that Angola currently has around a thousand active ravines.
According to the minister, the provinces of Lunda-Norte, Uíge and Lunda-Sul present erosion phenomena of great concern.
He considered that this situation represents a great danger to human life and infrastructure and requires a greater financial cost for its intervention.
Carlos Alberto dos Santos reported that by the end of 2022, the country had a total of 742 active ravines, of which more than 200 were intervened by the Executive, within the scope of the Emergency Ravine Containment and Stabilization Program, guaranteeing the safety of many infrastructures. -structures and people.
Despite the work of the Executive and partners, he continued, there is the evolution of other erosions that were in the formation phase and the progression of many others that complete the approximately one thousand active erosion processes in the country.
Without pointing out the causes of the appearance of the ravines, Carlos Alberto dos Santos informed that Namibe, which was not part of the range of 17 provinces in the country with erosion processes, has also started to show them since last year.
The province of Cuanza-Norte, he pointed out, has 45 active erosion processes and in a “worrying” state of progression, mainly due to the fact that they are found in residential areas and on national roads.
Carlos Alberto informed that within the framework of the ravine sealing program underway in the country, these erosions must be intervened to avoid the interruption of road traffic on some roads in the province and the destruction of homes.
He expressed particular concern about the four large ravines that are threatening to destroy more than 50 homes in the Beta, Cacolombolo, Balão and Limitada neighborhoods, in the municipality of Golungo, as well as in the Miradouro neighborhood, in the city of Ndalatando.
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