On the 22nd of March the Nerja Town Hall approved a motion in a Plenary Meeting of the Town Council to send of a request to Demarcación de Costas de Andalucía Mediterráneo to have the town’s beaches sorted out, which had been badly damaged by winter gales, namely El Chucho.

Well this being elections month, a few days later the said public entity announced that work on the storm-eroded beaches in the province would start and they would be topped up with sand.

Work has already begun in Marbella, but will work its way down to Torrox and Nerja – and all this before Easter tourists descend!

So where is the sand coming from? According to the Department of the Environment, it will come from ‘more sheltered beaches…’ Robbing Peter to pay Paul? Well, not really, because the sand on these beaches has been washed there by the very same storms, so it is really a case of ‘bringing it back.’ Of course, the sea does it for free, whereas the human effort will cost 70,000 euros

In the case of Playa El Chucho, the sand will be retrieved from El Playazo. The worst hit beach, belonging to neighbouring Torrox, was El Ferrara, which will receive sand from Playa de Los Llanos. Hopefully, the projects should be complete by the 28th (We shall be at the printers before then of course).

Lastly, some readers will probably be thinking that this past winter didn’t exactly produce a glut of storms, which is true, which is precisely why not that many beaches have been damaged and ‘only’ 70,000 euros was needed to put things back together again.

(News: Nerja, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)