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Date Published: 12/08/2020
ARCHIVED - Cartagena council will commission a report to remove mud and silt from Los Urrutias beaches
This month the council has moved from talking about the need to create a report to talking about commissioning the report
The Mar Menor Inter-administrative Forum, a body created by the municipalities which fringe the Mar Menor and the regional government as a working body to move forward various projects relating to the management of the Mar Menor and co-ordinate actions between all those involved in the long-term process of resolving the issues relating to the lagoon, met this week to discuss a number of issues.
Cartagena City Council has published its own press release relating to the points it considers to be relevant to its own municipality, principal of which is the ongoing problem of accumulated silt and rotting vegetation in the Los Urrutias and Punta Brava areas.
The council has been threatening legal action and attempting to force the national Government to take responsibility for the cost of removing the mud for months and last month at the meeting of the Forum proposed that the municipalities just get on with the job and do it themselves.
This month mayoress, Ana Belén Castejón, reported that the council “will take a step forward and commission a report to remove the mud from the beaches of the Mar Menor.”
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, insists that the municipalities fringing the Mar Menor are in charge of cleaning mud and sludge, and of course, the municipalities themselves, are always keen to avoid spending money un-necessarily and insist it should be done by the state.
However, residents are growing extremely weary of the same old rhetoric and total lack of action to resolve the issues and have become increasingly militant and embarrassingly vocal about the topic, entirely understandable given the offensive odour close to their homes and the fact that this summer the beaches are still considered to be “not suitable for bathing” in their little corner of the lagoon due to the deposits of mud.
So this month, the step forward is the announcement that, "We are very clear that if we do not do it, no one will come to do it, so we are going to start working on the report that makes it possible and we will see later who assumes the cost of these much-needed works," the mayoress said after the meeting.
Obviously the Mayoress is keen to avoid spending council money if there is a chance that other bodies such as the regional government, can be persuaded to stump up the cash.......
No from the Ministry to the creation of a high commissioner for the Mar Menor
The Mayor of Cartagena once again expressed her opinion that a “high commissioner for the Mar Menor” should be appointed, regional Minister Antonio Luengo, said that the Government of Spain has rejected the proposal.
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