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| The mayor has regretted in the Inter-Administrative Forum that the State does not contemplate the possibility of creating a high commissioner for the Lagoon | The Cartagena City Council will take a step forward and commission a report to remove the mud and mud from the beaches of the Mar Menor.

This has been stated by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, at the meeting of the Mar Menor Inter-Administrative Forum, which took place this Wednesday, August 12 and in which Castejón participated.At the meeting last July, the mayor of Cartagena already proposed to take a step forward and initiate the pertinent studies to carry out the removal of mud and sludge in the towns of the Mar Menor, after the response of the Secretary of State of Environment, Hugo Morán, that the riverside municipalities were in charge of the cleaning of mud and sludge despite the fact that this action has always been the responsibility of the Government of Spain.The Cartagena City Council, like the rest of the consistories, as its mayors have stated, is clear that the powers in this matter belong to the State, but the solution to the situation of beaches such as Los Urrutias and Los Nietos cannot be delayed plus.

"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 work," the mayor remarked.

.Castejón has shown that, from the Cartagena City Council, hydraulic investments are being made to improve the sanitation network in various riverside towns to alleviate the possible discharges that occur due to the poor condition of these infrastructures.

Thus, it has reported on the bidding for sanitation works in Los Urrutias, Los Nietos, El Llano del Beal (to avoid dragging from the Sierra Minera) and Playa Honda.On the other hand, Castejón has informed the rest of the components of the inter-administrative Forum of the proposal of the Cartagena City Council so that the Mar Menor can receive a budget from the European economic recovery fund, a proposal that has had the support of the rest of the mayors.“I have also put on the table something that I already announced in the State Debate of the municipality in Cartagena: of those 140,000 million euros that the Government of Spain has negotiated with Europe for the economic recovery of the country, is it not important that the Mar Menor, which has already suffered several scourges, damages and a catastrophic situation such as this pandemic, does not deserve to be considered and taken into account, so that a game from that economic recovery fund is destined solely and exclusively for the Mar Menor? " Ana Belén Castejón.No from the Ministry to the creation of a high commissioner of the Mar MenorThe mayor of Cartagena has again expressed the need to create a high commissioner for the Mar Menor, but in today's meeting the Minister of Water, Antonio Luengo, has communicated to the river mayors that this is not a figure that has planned to create the Government of Spain.“We continue to think that the figure of the high commissioner would have been very positive to lead, work, group and join efforts, budget and all the competencies around a common objective and front: to preserve and safeguard the salty lagoon of Europe, which is ours Mar Menor, but, if this figure does not seem right to you, we believe that it should be the city councils who decide the departure and actions to undertake and help safeguard and advance in the protection of the Mar Menor with charge of that item of European funds ", has concluded Ana Belén Castejón.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena