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Neighbors del Mar Menor in Murcia will demonstrate to demand that the lagoon be saved (24/02/2016)

Those affected by the situation of deterioration and neglect suffered by the Mar Menor been made ​​to place a call to all citizens to go out next Tuesday March 1 in a demonstration through the streets of downtown Murcia.

Cartaena Mayor, Jose Lopez, who will join the demonstration, has chaired this morning's press conference in which reported this event and made ​​a summary of the status of the lagoon.

Next to the mayor attended by the Councillor of the area of transparency and good governance, Juan Pedro Torralba;

President of the Federation of Residents of Cartagena and Shire, Cristina Roca;

and the presidents of neighborhood associations Los Urrutias, Severo Sánchez;

the Mar de Cristal, Ángel purse;

and other representatives of South Arco: Estrella de Mar, Punta Brava, Los Nietos, Carmolí, Camping Caravaning, Paradise Beach, and several members of the board.

As reported by Lopez, some of the problems affecting the Mar Menor are the accumulation of mud, which in some cases reaches a meter and a half, and the plagues of flies, sediment transport, contributions from the coastline Albujón and other pollutants that cause poor health of its waters.

MANIFESTACIÃ "N

A call for expressions will be held at 11.00 am at the Square of Spain Murcia, where they will focus and march at 11.30 will begin.

The demonstration tour Arenal Street, Plaza de Belluga, Sculptor Salzillo Street, the street Azucaque - which stop to make first manifesto against Segura basin -Calle Sculptor Salzillo again, will go through to the square street Tatters Santo Domingo, and the Alfonso X El Sabio avenue again make another manifesto against the Coastal State.

Finally, go for Gutierrez Mellado, Calle Jose Tapia Sanz, Antoñete Galvez to finish in the Plaza de Santoña and taking the last manifesto to the Ministry of Public Works, where they end up.

It will be a pretty pedestrian route to cross with people and explain face to face the problems that occur in the Mar Menor, and have reported that carried marine flowers (algae) to show directly that suffer daily those who live in areas del Mar Menor.

To provide stakeholders attending the demonstration, a free bus will leave grandchildren and tour Starfish, Los Urrutias, Punta Brava, El Carmoli and El Algar is offered.

The deadline to sign up is Thursday 25 February.

All information can be found by clicking here .

CONTEXT

As the Mayor explained, the situation is as follows: again there is a delay in the withdrawal of breakwaters, which leads awarded Construcciones Castillejo from October and initially had to be hired last November.

However, it was decided by the national government that was left for earlier this year, and with the new budget, which would be hired in January as the tender was already and only lacked the administrative act of hiring.

They said in January could not hire because they gave them time, added Lopez, but throughout February were going to get the contract.

Once the CEO Costas, Andrés Martínez Muñoz, did you get that information, they realized that if the recruitment was delayed until the end of February, would have the normal time to remove those jetties del Mar Menor because He began a close season which runs from March 1 until October.

So, Jose Lopez spoke to the Minister of the Environment, Adela Martinez-Cache, to pose the question.

She met the technical and understood that it was better for the Mar Menor remove the breakwaters of Los Urrutias in March, although preventive measures to prevent any spillage from spreading across the lagoon.

From there, it was delivered to the Directorate General of Coasts already had authorization of the Directorate General for the Environment, and it was then found information - we need to contrast, as has detailed the mayor - that he had an opinion of the law of the State said that in this period of caretaker government, had decided not to hire, claiming that they could only meet the urgent cases.

So much for the situation, and after no response from the Ministry, José López said that remains pending and meanwhile supports neighbors in the idea of taking to the streets to demonstrate for this situation which leads polluting Mar Menor for more than 30 years.

ANOTHER QUESTIONS

At the request of journalists, Jose Lopez has made ​​mention of the situation of the AVE in Cartagena, pediente also the new government of the nation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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