Located in the locality of Norte, in the civil parish of Santa Bárbara in the municipality of Vila do Porto, the station was closed in the 1980s, and the buildings eventually left to ruins.

By the middle of the 1980s, this vigilance was cancelled the complex was sacked by its local population, resulting in its state of ruin, degradation and eventual encroachment by vegetation.

The Regional Directorate for the Environment and Sea (Portuguese: Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar) underwent an environmental hazards cleanup at the site in 2008; the intervention permitted the removal of various types of residuals (ferrous, electrical, waste, drums, tires and plastics), in order to improve island ecology.

[3] The intervention was assisted by the Serviços Florestal e de Desenvolvimento Agrário de Santa Maria (Forest Service and Agrarian Development), a delegation from the Regional Secretariate for Equipment and Habitation (Portuguese: Secretaria Regional da Habitação e Equipamento), the local municipal and parish councils.

[4] The exterior spaces, originally, included public green-spaces and well-manicured private residences, associated with the families that made-up the community at the station.