Aquarium Out of Bounds for CA?

Last month the Mayor of Almuñécar, accompanied by representatives of the PA, IU and PSOE visited the Aquarium – the CA said that they hadn’t been invited.

Consequently, Juan Carlos Benavides requested a visit to the said installations on the 5th of March. According to the CA press release, five minutes before the appointed time, they received notification forbidding access. The reason given, which the CA considered “puerile” was that of “considerations of safety.”

The CA considers this prohibition to be an attack on their rights as municipal councillors. What are they trying to hide, asks the CA? The CA press release thinks that the Herrera Administration must have let the conditions of the installations deteriorate; effectively abandoning it to its fate, they reason.

To reopen the Aquarium for summer will cost the town 200,000 euros. And that is the objective of the Town Hall, to get the Aquarium ready for the summer and to find a private company that is willing to run it. The repairs being carried out are the minimum necessary in the question of safety, but even so, 200,000 euros is a lot of money to find.

And the Aquarium has not been cheap from the outset, with 11m euros having been spent on it all told, in only six years of life. For this reason the Councillor for the Environment, Luis Aragón, considers that somebody should be brought to task for the deficient building work – both the company and the supposed municipal supervisors, as well as the deficient maintenance since opening its doors.

Meanwhile the sharks and other marine life swim around in the tanks down there, oblivious to the political squabble and probably wondering where all the humans have gone.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)