Date Published: 18/06/2020
ARCHIVED - Mazarrón installs buoys on two of its wild beaches closest to Bolnuevo
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The council is also dumping its Posidonia on the dog beach to “return it to its natural environment”
This year municipal councils on the Mediterranean coastline of the Murcia Region are hoping to profit from the woes being experienced by the Mar Menor this summer and are busy making noise about their own coastal beaches in a bid to draw tourists into their own municipalities.
Amongst them is Mazarrón, which has put out a press release about the “balization” of the beaches of Rincón de Bolnuevo and Piedra Mala in Bolnuevo, the first two beaches in the run of wild coastal beaches joining with those in the Lorca municipality. Click to
see all Mazarrón beaches.
This stretch of glorious wild beaches have been effectively closed to anyone other than walkers and cyclists as the previous council was unwilling to foot the bill for the maintenance work required to keep them open and accessible for vehicles, but these first two beaches can be reached easily by car, although parking can be a bit of a challenge during the summer months.
The floating buoys prevent boats from getting too close to the beach (and the rocks which lie just below the surface of the water!) and has been done, according to the councillor for coastal services, Raquel Raja, "so that all our users can enjoy a safe and calm swim, avoiding the presence of boats near the coast ”.
The council has also installed a new concrete walkway on the beach of La Pava, an iniative which the council plans to extend to other beaches to avoid the necessity of installing wooden walkways every summer.
The council has also made a comment about the removal of organic material from the beaches, particularly in El Alamillo, where Posidonia sea grass accumulates in large quantities and has to be manually removed from the beach every summer.
The council notes that “algae is not garbage and that a protocol must be followed to avoid removing sand from the beaches while preserving the natural state of the marine environment.”
The councillor commented on this point that, "the algae are dried, the sand is removed and they are taken to the dog beach of El Gachero so that the sea returns them to their natural environment."
So, in other words, they are piled up until they dry and then dumped on the so-called dog beach, which is little more than a rock-edged muddy track surrounded by drying heaps of Posidonia, just metres from el Alamillo to be washed back into the sea and forming a raft of smelly Posidonia through which the dogs can swim, thus avoiding the cost of composting or relocating.
Fortunately Mazarrón has 30 beaches to choose from, including vast sandy areas in which it is difficult to find another human being, never mind maintaining a 2.25 square metre patch of sand as is required by the post-Covid legislation! (
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