The Junta de Andalucía has released 65m euros for ‘urgent operations against adverse natural phenomenon.’
Around 28m euros of that will be end up as rural-infrastructure maintenance and 20m will go to clearing out the riverbeds of their excessive vegetation.
Having seen what has happened further down the Andalusian coastline in Almería and further (Murcia) it is amazing that Almuñécar’s rivers still look like a film set from the Vietnam war – they’re chock-a-block with wild cane and growling triffids.
But it is not only the overgrown ramblas and riverbed that will be getting long overdue attention, but also the tardy strimming along the verges of the Cabra road (Otívar). It should have been done at the start of summer as the tinder-dry grass is a tremendous fire hazard, yet council workmen only began cutting them back around the middle of this month, a week away from the arrival of autumn.
But getting back to Almuñécar’s Río Seco, Verde and La Herradura’s Río Jate, they should have been cleaned out during the summer, ready for the end-of-summer downpours, but instead these riverbeds in their present state will spew out cane and other debris onto the beaches… or burst their banks because of the obstructions.
Editorial comment: somebody should be sacked.
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Totally agree Dawn! All the plastic pollution in the rambla is waiting to wash to the sea where it will kill more wildlife. Disgusting and embarrassing! Do these people have no pride¿?
This is serious problem as also in Rambla de Rubite there areas so full of plastic, organic and inorganic debris that as soon as we have rains it will be washed into the sea. I am also fighting to remove an illegal waste site on farmers land just above the rambla de rubite where the local Grupos dump there waste This is a risk to health and any residues run off in the rains and enter the rambla It is so disgusting that the Junta de Andalucia and the Medio Ambiente do nothing regarding all this illegal dumping in the ramblas when they are fully aware of the problem Yes!!! the level of inaction is worrying and inconceivable Where does all the money go?????????