Only with public pressure we can get.
With these words addressed the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, to the crowd of neighbors and representatives of the area who have gathered for this morning on the beach in Los Urrutias to celebrate the beginning of the withdrawal of the breakwaters.
The mayor, who was accompanied by Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, and area councilor Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon, wanted to celebrate the achievement urrutienses they have achieved with
breakwaters.
And, after several months of wrangling, the Directorate General of Coasts has made ​​the State release the money needed for removal.
The event has also joined Andres Martinez, head of the Coastal Authority in the Region, and other members of the municipal corporation.
So, after last Monday arrived machines and remain installed in the sand, in the morning, March 2, have begun work to remove these structures found in the water and causing the accumulation of mud and environmental degradation of the salt lake.
We have seen that with the local pressure and helps the City Council, we have been able that the other administrations are in place and mobilized, and they have been processed in a few days to an act that seemed not going to be out he has until there was a new government, appointed grateful Jose Lopez.
In addition to the machinery that is already scouring the beach, it also has numerous anti - pollution barriers will be placed around the jetties to prevent troubled water around, with the aim of ensuring appropriate measures of environmental care.
A FIRST STEP TO SAVE THE LAGUNA
However, the mayor stressed that this is only the first step of a hundred to be given, because to save completely the Mar Menor have to keep working on building the rides that are being requested, finish fixing problems mud together with biologists and technicians, with special emphasis, the methods to enable the wadis, especially Albujón, stop pouring brine and other agro - bearing and pose the greatest degradation suffered by the lagoon.
Lopez said they will continue working in this direction, accompanied by the neighbors and the best technicians from the University of Murcia and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena to save the Mar Menor become reality in the shortest possible time.
There will MANIFESTACIÃ "N
It vanishes therefore the demonstration had been postponed to 8 marz or in Murcia, since it has fulfilled the expected time for that machinery has been launched.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena