| They will be the beaches of San Ginés in La Azohía, El Portús, Playa Paraíso and Playa del Entremares in La Manga, where delimited accesses and schedules | The Cartagena City Council has opened this Friday, May 8, four access to the sea of ??the municipality enabled for the exclusive practice of water sports for high-level and federated athletes.
They will be the beaches of San Ginés in La Azohía, El Portús, Playa Paraíso and Playa del Entremares in La Manga, where the accesses and schedules have been defined so that athletes can train, as reported by the Deputy Mayor and head of the Commission of the Mar Menor, Noelia Arroyo.Arroyo explained that "the municipal brigades of the Department of the Littoral and Sports are working to ensure that high-level and federated athletes can carry out their training with the maximum security guarantees and complying with the conditions established by the Ministry of Health," according to Order SND / 388/2020, of May 3 and stressed that "we have limited access to the sea to facilitate control since the beaches remain closed to other citizens until the new guidelines of the Government of Spain come into force" .To do this, the walkways and pergolas have already been installed on the beaches of San Ginés, Entremares and Playa Paraíso, where they are finishing the fences that will define the access perimeter and the informative signs indicating the exclusive use for this type of athletes.
On Monday, the catwalks and posters will be installed on the Portús beach.The vice-mayor has said that "the enabled beaches respond to geographical criteria to guarantee access for all athletes throughout the municipality, one in the west, San Ginés beach, two in the east, Entremares in the Mediterranean Sea and Playa Paraíso in Mar Menor, and one in the center, Portús, since Costas will start working with his equipment and machinery this Monday in Cala Cortina and that makes it impossible to install the accesses to the beach.
”As for the access schedule, high-level athletes will not have time restrictions, while federated athletes will be able to train on the beaches from 6:00 a.m.
to 10:00 a.m.
and from 8:00 p.m.
to 11:00 p.m.
Arroyo has called for athletes to comply with established standards and maintain safe distances.THE BEACH CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE CONTINUESOn the other hand, Noelia Arroyo, explained that "the municipal brigades work tirelessly in the conditioning of the sandbanks, with the removal of bulky and algae cleaning, which have covered most of the work, both on the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea as in those of the Mar Menor "where the deputy mayor has insisted that" the Levante storm continues to carry the organic matter suspended in the sea, most of which are algae, which reach the shore very quickly and make work difficult ", as we were able to check this week in Islas Menores and previously in Los Urrutias.The Department of Litoral is daily pending weather conditions to act urgently on the beaches that are most affected by winds.
At the same time, the vice mayor has reported, “on the beaches where the maintenance of the sandbanks is very advanced, beach furniture such as the walkways, pergolas, footbaths and litter bins on the beaches of the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean in La Manga, Minor Islands and Mar de Cristal, to have everything ready when the opening of the beaches is decided by the Ministry of Health ”.The work continues in a coordinated manner with the other administrations.
The brigades of the Autonomous Community continue to work in the Los Urrutias area, and on Monday the Coastal Demarcation is scheduled to begin work on the recovery of the coastline and the work pending the latest damage and will make it more effective and visible.
the tasks carried out by the City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena