The Junta de Andalucía has released 65m euros for ‘urgent operations against adverse natural phenomenon.’ Around 28m euros of that will be end up as rural-infrastructure maintenance and 20m will go to clearing out the riverbeds of their excessive vegetation. Having seen what has happened further down the Andalusian coastline in Almería and further (Murcia)…
As from September, the start of the new 2019-2020 school year, two Almuñécar schools will have the facilities to provide school dinners for their students.
There will be new artificial turf for the Rio Verde football pitch in Almuñécar, thanks to a 160,000 budget. This is the pitch on the northside of the N-340.
(SUK) It really needs to rain and rain properly. We’ve seen promising skies, thunder, lightening and even a smattering of raindrops. However, the countryside needs sustained rainfall over weeks.
The Hermandad Virgen Madre and San Isidro Labrador de Torrecuevas are warming motors or the VI Romeria de San Isidro on the 21st of this month.
The Plataforma por el Agua del Valle de Río Verde has asked for urgent measures to stop salt water getting into the valley’s water table.
Work is under way for a bridge to link Otivar to the other side of the river where many local farmers have orchards.
This area of Almuñécar is the vega north of the Mercadona supermarket on San Cristóbal. We recently ran an article about a projected inland marina there, by the way.
We are now at the end of summer, facing the the inevitable end-of-summer downpours, so the riverbeds are being cleared of vegetation.
The grounds of the Río Verde junior school were packed tight with locals, each paying two euros to enter, although all the tickets were sold long before that number was reached.