The socialist opposition party in the Almuñécar Town Council claims that the Río Verde water table is being constantly drained because of building work next to Las Góndolas.
The Provincial Council is building subsidised housing there and as they are excavating foundations, water is pouring into them. Consequently, according to the PSOE, they are dumping this fresh water straight into the river.
The Spokesperson for the PSOE, Josué Díaz, described this situation as an “aberration within a municipality that has gone through years of drought and fighting against the intrusion of salt water into the aquifer.”
“We cannot spend public money and ask for resources to fill the aquifer whilst the Town Council is extracting water from it and releasing it into the sea; it’s a contradiction and irresponsibility that should be rectified immediately,” he added.
The socialist claim that locals have come to them because despite their protests at the Town Hall, nothing has been done about it.
The PSOE Spokesperson considers that this situation should have been foreseen when they were drawing up the plans. They suggest, for example that the water could have been pumped further up the river so that it would filter down, although, logically, it would end up in the excavations again.
The socialists also point out that a similar situation exists in the Sandovala (behind the San Cristobal Mercadona) where the Río Seco aquifer lies.
“This is a coastal area where it is easy for salt water to make its way into the aquifer when it drops, so building work should have contingency plans to prevent environmental damage,” said Josué Díaz, adding that they had nothing against subsidised housing being built within the municipality.
Editorial comment: Almuñécar old town is bordered by vegas on both sides, owing to Río Verde and Río Seco, so if you stick a spade in the ground, you’re going to find water. The Whole of the P-4 is built on a vega water table, with a propensity to flooding.
The Municipal Surveyors know this, yet the P-4 went up anyway, just the same as they knew that the hillside on which Carmenes del Mar sits was unstable. If you build on a floodplain, you’re going to have this problem. Salobreña, La Herradura, and Playa de Granada/Poniente in Motril all have this problem.
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
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