Provincial, Public-Health Delegates have recommended that people should refrain from bathing on Melicena beaches owing to the detection of fecal traces (E. coli) in the water.
The recommendation, which is not a prohibition, will remain in place until the health risk disappears.
Accordingly, the Sorvilán Town Council, (Melicena is a municipal dependency) has passed on the warning to beachgoers, both locals and tourists.
Mayor Pilar Sánchez explained that the alert came about after a water sample found “alterations in the E. coli parametres,” which is an indicator used to check the microbiological quality of sea water.
Obviously, being as we are at the height of summer, the said beaches are packed.
Meanwhile, over in nearby Los Yesos, the beach is disappearing at an alarming rate and erosion is even threatening the N-340 which passes alongside.
Locals have been demanding a breakwater for around 30 years to stop the beach being swept away, but nothing has been done, pointed out the Chairwoman of the Asociación de Vecinos Los Yesos Costa, Pilar García.
“There used to be a wide beach here but the sea has slowly eaten it away,” she said, pointing out that there were empty building plots, some measuring up to 700 sq/m in front of buildings along the beach, which have completely disappeared… yet their owners still continue to pay taxes on them.
Costas did build a seawall using boulders to protect the buildings and the main road, but they did nothing to stop the beach being swept away. They brought in a couple of lorries loaded with sand but within a very short time the sea made short work of it.
What the locals want is a breakwater built at the end of the paseo and seawall – it doesn’t have to be very big, they say, just long enough to protect the beach from the westerly gales.
(News: Melicena and Los Yesos, Sorvilán, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo/Source: MJ Arrebola)
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Hmm. Taste test. Or dont swallow ??
Usual really for the past ,what 25 years or so. Build, build, build. Of course the very very old and cheap as chips system can cope. Let the less well off, sun bath and swim in the salty sea. We have our very nice chlorine or salt water pools. No shite. Honestly.