The Government announced this Monday an investment of more than 4.5 million euros in the Xévora Hydro-Agricultural Development, in Campo Maior, aimed at constructing the pumping station that will reinforce the irrigation system. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Sea within the framework of a new phase of a project that represents a total investment of approximately 25 million euros and allows for infrastructure to be established across approximately 1,600 hectares in the municipality.
The intervention does not correspond to the construction of a new dam. It is the Pumping Station of the Xévora Hydro-Agricultural Development, infrastructure intended to ensure that water reaches the irrigation system in adequate quantity and pressure. The construction of the pumping station was authorized by an order published in the Official Gazette on July 24, which authorized the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DGADR) to incur a maximum expenditure of 3.64 million euros, plus VAT, distributed over the years 2026 and 2027.
The public tender for the design and construction of the pumping station was published on August 20, with a base price of 3,640,000 euros, excluding VAT. DGADR currently maintains the procedure in the consultation and proposal submission phase. The pumping station continues the construction of the Xévora irrigation network, whose work is in the final stages and represented an investment of nearly 19 million euros, including VAT, financed by PDR 2020.
The Xévora Hydro-Agricultural Development is fed by the Abrilongo Dam and constitutes one of the main recent investments in the modernization of irrigation in the municipality of Campo Maior. With the construction of the new pumping station, the investment enters a new stage aimed at ensuring the operating conditions of the network and the availability of water necessary for agricultural activity.
