The blustery weather yesterday caused damage to Motril's beaches owing to wave action and the lack of beach defences.
A red flag flew most of Monday along the Costa Tropical, but that didn’t stop the windsurfers, of course.
The futility of trucking in sand to replace that which had been swept away by spring gales becomes obvious when on the day of the biggest bank-holiday fiesta of the summer, the waves sweep it all away again.
Motril’s beaches, more than anywhere else on the Costa Tropical, badly need breakwaters and other beach defences which can arrest this constant loss of sand. Until they are built, it will be just more money being thrown away and efforts wasted.
How Motril Town Hall intends to eliminate the shelf in the beaches is anybody’s guess, but with half of August and all of September ahead of us, they cannot afford to do nothing.
(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Manolo Barreras)
If they cannot get their acts together about parking or not losing spaces for parking. Then expect a miracle for the beach areas. You never know it might actually rain too. !!
Alas one of the consequences of the Rules dam was less sediment being deposited by the R Guadalfeo which has exacerbated coastal erosion