The National Transport Infrastructure (DNIT) is located in the latest preparations for the installation license needed to implement the Debrise Lourenço Pedral project. The information was released on Wednesday evening (26) by the Deputy mayor of Maraba, Joao Tatjiba (PL). The politician posted a video on his social networks to report that he joined last Wednesday (26) at a meeting on the Board of Directors of the DNIT Alane.
According to Tataba, Director Idam Tafaris stated at the meeting that all the requirements of the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ebama) have been fulfilled and that the license on which the beginning of the works should be issued must be issued soon. “This is a reason for a lot of joy for us, because it means development, creating job opportunities, means another fact for Maraaba, Itupiranga and the entire region,” the deputy mayor celebrated.
Pedral Do Lourenço was expected to collapse in the seventies of the last century to allow the TOCANTINS river in the most dry months of the year. Despite its importance in connecting the central plateau with the Amazon and the flow of local production, the environmental license has been awaited for more than 12 years. This work is essential to enhance the development of the southern region of Para, as it will allow the continuous traffic of ships and trains in the extension of 300 km from the Tokantin River, from Mara to his mouth.
The initiative is part of the implementation of the Araguaia-Tocantins Water Corridor, whose works were divided, for technical reasons, into different parts. Located in Stretch 2, which runs 35 km from ITupiranga to Bogéa Island. The excerpt 1 includes the road between the municipalities in Maraba and Itupiranga (about 52 km), while the 3 municipal expansion in Tukuroy and Payo (125 km) is connected.
Although the entire waterway project is subject to the environmental license itself with IBAMA, section 2 only obtained the previous license, and as announced, the deputy mayor of MAABá municipality will also receive the installation license.
In February this year, the Federal Court realized the importance of work and authorized the collapse of Pedral Do Lourenço. According to Judge Aarton Portela, the planned works of Lourenço Pedral “may restrict and influence under control, with mitigation and compensation measures that have already been implemented or in the implementation process, according to the technical studies submitted.”
The judge also considered that the lack of performance of business “would cause significant damage to the social and economic development of the region, especially given the strategic importance of Loreno Badal’s collapse to logistics services, the transportation of goods, even residents, access to schools, access to schools, access to schools, and access to schools. Medical services.”