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ARCHIVED - Spanish government identifies 280 potential demolitions around the Mar Menor
La Manga stands to lose most of its beaches as the sea level rises
In its battle to protect La Manga and the Mar Menor from the effects of the climate emergency Spain’s Ministry for Ecological Transition is reported in regional newspaper La Verdad to have identified 280 built-up front-line plots of land which could be “recovered” in the municipalities of San Pedro del Pinatar, San Javier, Cartagena and Pilar de la Horadada (the latter in the province of Alicante).
The buildings concerned are 256 which fall into the category of “residential”, four hotels, 15 restaurants, four beach bars, two sports complexes and a car park, all of them having been marked in red in a draft plan for the protection of the coast as sea levels rise. This information was communicated on Thursday by Hugo Morán, the Secretary of State for the Environment, to Antonio Luengo, the minister for the Environment in the regional government of Murcia, in a meeting which Sr Luengo later described as “disappointing” on account of the fact that he received no specific commitment from the Secretary of State to undertake immediate action to protect the marine environment of the Mar Menor.
If the recovery of the land goes ahead it will imply the demolition of the buildings standing on the plots concerned, despite the fact that they may have been built entirely legally with all of the relevant licences and permits. Instead the demolitions are being contemplated in response to their location in areas which are already being shown to be vulnerable during extreme weather events such as the two “gota fría” storms last autumn and Storm Gloria just ten days ago, and the intention is to return these zones to their natural state and to the public domain.
No details have been released as to exactly which buildings would be affected, although La Verdad reports that information has been sent to the Town Halls concerned and to the scientific committee monitoring the condition of the Mar Menor. However, it appears that the municipality of Cartagena is the main target with a total of 166 buildings, including 83 which are in the public domain in Los Nietos alone. A further 78 are in San Javier and there are 4 in San Pedro del Pinatar and 8 in Pilar de la Horadada.
The report also states that of 66 beaches along the stretch of coastline studied only 23 are able to boast that there are no buildings infringing on the public domain, and in La Manga it is specifically mentioned that the Ministry is against the idea of dredging the “golas” (the channels through which water flows between the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean).
Other projects under consideration are designed to reduce the erosion and degradation of beaches, such as the removal of some jetties and breakwaters in Los Nietos and the installation of other structures to prevent mud accumulating close to the marina.
Similar projects have been designed for other parts of the Spanish coastline in the provinces of Huelva, Granada, Castellón and Valencia, where work is already being carried out, and more are to be compiled for the Ebro delta, Almería, Málaga, Cádiz and the Balearics.
The actions proposed in and around La Manga and the Mar Menor may seem drastic, but it is worth bearing in mind that the rise in the levels of the world’s seas and oceans is forecast to have a dramatic effect on the area well before the end of this century. The inter-governmental climate change panel has compiled a study which indicates that by 2040 the beaches will begin to disappear at El Estacio and Pudrimel in La Manga, by 2060 parts of La Manga itself will be under water in Pudrimel while the loss of beaches will extend to Banco del Tabal, Calnegre Galúa, Marchamalo and Levante, and by 2080 the erosion of the shore will have become even more pronounced.
By the year 2100, assuming that the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere continues, there will be practically no beaches left at all on the Mediterranean coast of the southern part of La Manga, according to the study.
Image: Thursdays meeting between Hugo Morán (left) and Antonio Luengo (right)
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