📋 Tender Overview
The third physical connection with Brazil is advancing steadily, reaching 19% overall progress to date. One aspect that must be highlighted in the construction of the Bioceanica bridge that will link the cities of Carmelo Peralta (PY) and Puerto Murtinho (BR), is the special attention given to the care of its environment, especially the biodiversity of the place. .
Following this line, with the objective of minimizing the impact during the works, mitigating and compensatory actions are carried out, thus complying with the Environmental Management Plan for the care of biodiversity.
Until now, 4 flow measurement campaigns and 7 water quality campaigns have been carried out, through which it is possible to know the behavior of the water channel and at the same time detect the presence of heavy metals, hydrocarbons, micro and macroorganisms, among others.
Added to this are 5 campaigns to monitor the ichthyofauna and macroinvertebrates, through which it is possible, for example, to taxonomically identify and collect biometric data from the fish caught.
Also, permanent monitoring and care of the native fauna is carried out. In the case of sighting of animals in the work zone, the species found is captured and translocated to the sectors surrounding the project, but free of intervention, in order to guarantee their survival.
Eng. Alcides Enciso, from the PROINTEC Consortium that is in charge of the supervision of the work, indicated that in this type of undertakings the affectation is inevitable, for which reason a set of mitigating and compensatory measures is implemented to prevent environmental impacts.
“Since we have the Paraguay River, over which we are intervening to build the bridge, the main objective is that this process does not represent a problem in terms of changes in the different existing water quality indices. This monitoring is carried out with a specialized technical team, ”he specified.
Regarding the preservation of the fauna of the place, he commented that in the month of May automated stations have been implemented in the district of Carmelo Peralta that would form part of the "Motus" Wildlife Tracking System, which is a research network of international collaboration, through which it will be possible to track the movement of birds at a local and regional scale, thus helping to identify priority habitats for the protection of several species of birds, with a main focus on migratory ones.
Likewise, Mr. Enciso commented that the clearing activities were adjusted to what was strictly necessary, compensatory measures being applied by the forest individuals affected by the project. On this point, he noted that the Consortium is delivering native seedlings to the municipality of Carmelo Peralta and reforestation campaigns have already been carried out together with the local educational population.
The Bioceanica bridge project, which is financed by Itaipu, Right Bank; It will have an extension of 1,294 meters, divided into three sections: two will constitute the access viaducts on both banks of the Paraguay River, and one will correspond to the cable-stayed part, 632 meters long, with a central span of 350 m.
The works are in charge of the PYBRA Consortium (Tecnoedil SA, Paulitec and Constructora Cidade) and is supervised by the PROINTEC Consortium. The management of the work is in charge of the UEP-DCyP of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC).
