Vélez de Benaudalla

news from Vélez de Benaudalla on the Costa Tropical

Reservoirs Dumping Water

Between midnight Monday and 10.00h Friday, Granada’s reservoirs released 36,000… million, litres of water. That’s a figure too large to get your head around.

Rules Dam Releases Water

Vélez de Benaudalla Town Hall has activated a prevention & monitoring protocol due to a potential rise in the Guadalfeo River caused by water releases from the Rules Dam.

A-44 Closure

Well, tomorrow, Wednesday the 14th, they will be closing down the A-44 over Rules Reservoir again in order to continue work on the new support pillar.

Prison Sentence Confirmed

A Motril man now faces 11 years in prison and an additional 10 of supervised release after a lower-court’s sentence was confirmed at an appeals hearing of the Andalusian Supreme Court (TSJA).

A Road-Hell Sunday

The tailbacks in the traffic heading inland from the coast on Sunday were tremendous, thanks to the A-44 over the Embalse de Rules being out of action.