Wasted Water

Consequently, farmers have criticised the Town Hall for its “inaction and silence” on the matter.

It appears that the supermarket is pumping water out from its underground levels – which is coming in from the water table – and dumping it into the riverbed beside it. Consequently, the water flows across the beach at the river mouth to the sea.

This area of Almuñécar is known as the La Sandovala, which mostly remains as vega. The water table is quite high there and in fact, ever since the Hotel Playa Almuñecar (previously known as Sol Meliá) was built around the year 2000, the pumps in the basement have been going 24 hours a day to keep the water out, reportedly.

The Chairman of the Asociación Verde-Seco-Jate, José Luis Ruiz Olivares, considers that the situation is very serious; as much for the Río-Seco water table as the Río Verde one. This is because they consider that sucking the water out of the water table during the drought could let salt water in.

Editorial comment: there was a plan, drawn up by the Town-Hall draughtsman, José Antonio Montalvo for ex-Mayor Benavides, where they were going to construct an interior marina where the hotel and Mercadona now stand. The river was going to be dredged and would serve as the entrance to the marina. It would have entailed letting in the sea, which is why it had so much opposition to it.

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

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