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The installation of the five spas in the Mar Menor began this Monday, November 23, with the presentation of one of them in Los Urrutias, which is being placed specifically on the stretch of beach that is in the Plaza de las Américas.

They are all expected to be finished by February 2021, they have an investment of 1,200,000 euros and will also be installed in the areas of Punta Brava and Estrella de Mar.These platforms meet three objectives such as "improving access to the bathroom on beaches where there is a presence of mud, facilitating access with reduced mobility, elderly and disabled people, and offering an infrastructure that is a tourist attraction for the area in these complicated moments ", explained Noelia Arroyo, who pointed out that" it is a claim of the neighborhood representatives of Los Urrutias, El Carmolí, Punta Brava, Estrella de Mar and Los Nietos ", In addition, the vice mayor recalled that next summer the Mar Menor, in addition to having five spas, will also have five parades that will be installed by the Cartagena City Council, so there will be a total of 10 access points to the bathroom.The general director of the Mar Menor, Miriam Pérez, has indicated that "we return to cultural, tourist and landscape values.

In addition, the scientific advisory committee endorses these actions, as they serve to fix filtering microorganisms that improve water quality, thus achieving the ecological recovery of the bath in these beaches of the Mar Menor ".SLUDGE REMOVAL The vice mayor of Cartagena and the general director have recalled that both the temporary walkways and the spas are not definitive solutions, but are being carried out to facilitate bathing until the removal of sludge and dry matter is not carried out, whose action is the responsibility of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

The City Council will send a document to the ministry describing the actions that, in the opinion of municipal technicians, it is necessary to carry out in front of our beaches to avoid safety and quality problems in the bathroom caused by the presence of dry land and the appearance of sludge."In less than a year we have heard the minister commit to tackling the extraction of dry and sludge and her secretary of state say that this is not her responsibility.

We want the ministry to pronounce directly on the concrete actions that must be taken to know what the City Council can do, "said Noelia Arroyo.The representative of the Los Urrutias Neighborhood Association, Elena Lledó, has also appealed to the Central Government to ask that it assume its powers: "they have turned their backs on me but I will not tire of claiming what belongs to Los Urrutias, We know that the removal of sludge and sludge is their responsibility, as is the works of the promenade, which includes the collection of rainwater ". 

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena