
The Granada Provincial Council announced that it would apply “exceptional measures” for coastal Town Halls concerning washed up debris brought down by barrancos and rivers.
Over in Maro the police have been raiding illegal campsites-cum-settlements on the beaches and barrancos there.
The Batallón Basurista SNL Sierra Nevada got together ten volunteers, aged between 61 and 13 to clear up dumped tyres in barrancos and on hillsides in Gualchos.
Gone are the days when dry riverbeds were the dumping grounds for building waste, old fridges, bidets and dead donkeys – well, they’re almost gone.
Travelling East along the coast of Granada, once you get to Motril the greenhouses start, and where there are greenhouses, you have rubbish. Perhaps for this reason the locals of Castell, Gualchos, Lújar, Polops and Carchuna-Calahonda are aware and troubled by the problem.