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Date Published: 20/05/2020
ARCHIVED - Residents of Los Urrutias want clean beaches, not bathing jetties
The neighbours have asked for improvements to their beaches to take priority over bathing jetties
Residents of the Los Urrutias area of Cartagena are less than happy about the announcement last week that the project to install five bathing platforms in Los Urrutias, Punta Brava and Estrella del Mar has completed the bureaucratic processes and environmental impact studies initiated in 2017 within the region and has now been submitted for rubber stamping to the national coastal department .
This type of structure has been in use in the Mar Menor since the area first began to welcome city-dwelling tourists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although nowadays the challenge of bathing with decorum has been replaced by the need to create practical and environmentally friendly structures which can help bathers traverse first the dry mud and stony surfaces fringing the shores, followed by the slippery marine growth which accumulates on the rocks just offshore, taking the bather out to areas approximately 100 metres from the shore where the water is approximately a metre deep.
#LosUrrutias 19/05/20
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Bajo ese manto amarillento de algas se esconden millones y millones de bacterias, es la zona CERO del Mar Menor.
- Es un foco insalubre y a la vez peligroso, la zona debería de ser vallada 🚫
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The total projected cost for the five jetties is around 1.5 million euros and once the work has been awarded via a public contract system, the execution time is expected to be six months, so these jetties could conceivably be in use by next summer.
However, residents are not happy about the news and have asked that the installation of the bathing platforms for Los Urrutias be postponed until the beaches are improved.
This corner of the Mar Menor has experienced enhanced problems since the first algal bloom occurred three years ago, as the water is particularly shallow in this stretch of coastline and is directly in the path of the prevailing winds, so tends to receive whatever debris or loose materials are floating in the waters at any given time.
As a result, this stretch of the Mar Menor shoreline tends to accumulate silt and rotting seagrass which can generate a pungent odour if it is not assiduously removed by beach cleaning services on a regular basis and has been somewhat neglected for a period of years, a lack of investment into infrastructure leaving residents unhappy with the level of service offered by their town hall.
The neighbours have formed a “protest platform” to bring their grievances to the attention of the local council and head of the platform, Ana Pineda Acosta, has demanded, on behalf of the neighbours, that the administrations "first clean the beach, invest in all the deficiencies that we have and fulfill the responsibilities that they have not fulfilled for many years. Later investment can be made to install bathing jetties, invest into making the area look better and decorate whatever you want to; any improvements will be welcome. "
Although at the same time the association has put out a press release calling the statement about the bathing jetties a "political manoeuvre" and a "hoax" that will not bring "any benefit" to residents and neighbours as long as there is no "quality" bathing to be enjoyed in Los Urrutias.
Residents, it seems, would prefer sand on their beaches and clean water to bathing jetties designed to bypass the mud, silt and debris and take bathers out to clearer waters 100 metres from the shoreline.
Images. Plataforma para la recuperación de la playa de Los Urrutias y su entorno
Below is an extract from the special report published in the Murcia Today weekly news round-up on Friday examining the latest news relating to the Mar Menor. The full report can be seen on the latest Murcia Today Bulletin. Click here
“Whoever pollutes, pays”; Public Prosecutor demands that those who are guilty for the condition of the Mar Menor should pay for its restitution
This whole question of “guilt” and “responsibility” is obviously just one part of the total process, as repairing the damage and creating plans to not only ensure there is no repeat of the current situation and repairing the damage are all bound in to this complex situation, along of course, with the question of who must pay for what.
This week the highest official of the Public Ministry in the Region, José Luis Díaz Manzanera, the Public Prosecutor, has ordered the opening of a governmental case, in the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Superior Prosecutor's Office headed by Javier Escrihuela, naming the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment, as the competent public administration, "so that it can initiate the corresponding legal administrative proceedings to demand environmental responsibility from the natural people and legal bodies who have influenced (caused) the degredation of the Mar Menor”.
The regional government is warned that "in the event of their non-compliance they must proceed to the forced execution of those actions at the expense of those responsible, in order to return the damaged natural resources to their original state “.
The Public Prosecutor is thereby attempting to force the regional government to submit the documentation it has compiled throughout the extensive processes of investigation which have been undertaken during the last three years to examine the causes of the algal bloom and identify the causes of the problems and oblige it to take legal action against those found to be responsible in order to find a mechanism by which the costs of repairing the damage can be financed.
The aim is "to obtain reparation for the damage caused" in this natural environment, in addition to forcing "the adoption of adequate preventive measures to avoid new polluting discharges to the Mar Menor" by those responsible for this situation.
Law 26/2007, of October 23rd, on Environmental Responsibility, which responds to Directive 2004/35 / EC of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union establishes the principal of “whoever pollutes, pays” and the Public Prosecutor is attempting to force the regional government to identify those responsible and force them to pay for the necessary measures to resolve the issues.
The regional government has stated that it has prepared all of the legal documentation required by the Public Prosecutor in the “environmental liability file” and is complying fully with the legal system.Files will be submitted in the coming days, it says.
Regional minister, Antonio Luengo, has urgently requested the CHS hold an extraordinary Governing Board, as it is one of the administrations that has been working to identify those responsible for the degradation.
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