It was published today, July 27, 2015, the Call for Applications/Invitation with code POSEUR-10-2015-17 and directed to the Municipality of Santarém for structural interventions to reduce risk from mass movements - Santarem Slopes.

The problem of instability in Santarém slopes dates back several decades, having registered several cases of land slip, putting at risk the safety of people and goods. In terms of more recent records, in 2001 there was an incident of great gravity. In August 2014, there was a slip of the Santa Margarida slope, downstream Theatre Rosa Damasceno, which established the cut, to date, of National Road No. 114. The need for structural intervention, final and urgent to consolidate the slopes of Santarem was recognized in a Collaboration Protocol, signed on May 18, 2004, between the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing, the Ministry of Environment and the Municipality of Santarém. It was completed in 2011 a Stabilisation Global Project of the slopes of Santarém (PGEES), but its implementation was never started. Already in 2015, and recognizing the need to upgrade the institutional commitments for the necessary structural intervention, a new Cooperation Protocol was signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy and the Municipality of Santarém. This is a problem with several dimensions and whose responsibilities should be shared. Report No. 293/2014, prepared by the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC), reviewed the state of play on the stability of slopes in Santarém, as of July 2014, defining the priorities for action and recommended its adoption, according to the degree of severity for people and goods.