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Finestrat will soon begin the Maintenance Works on the underground Anti-Storm Depot in the final section of the Barranco de la Cala

 

• THESE WORKS HAVE MOTIVATED FINESTRAT NOT TO APPLY FOR THE BLUE FLAG THIS YEAR

 

More than 5 years have passed since the most important work carried out in La Cala de Finestrat, the Canalization of the Barranco, whose main objective is to slow down the speed of the floods of water and, thereby, reduce the danger to people and drag that this entails.

 

Some works that in the final area maintain an underground tank where rainwater arrives and is diverted to the municipal sanitation network. This spillway is protected by a sand-covered breakwater. The passage of time and the outflow of water, especially on rainy days, has caused part of that breakwater to sink, which has affected the sand that covers that area.

 

The Finestrat City Council plans to intervene shortly in that final area, to carry out maintenance work on the breakwater and thus stop the loss of sand. The estimated duration of the works will be just two weeks.

 

“These works that we want to do are essential to provide a better service. We have started processing permits for maintenance work that is essential for its effectiveness. Since we have to start these works, this year we are not going to be eligible for the blue flag because we know that when there are works on the beach we cannot be eligible for the flag; "But we want to sacrifice this distinction without losing the excellent quality and magnificent services that our Cala de Finestrat has," said Mayor Juanfran Pérez Llorca.   

 

The decision not to opt for the Blue Flag has already been communicated by the council to the managing entity of Blue Flags, ADEAC, Environmental and Consumer Education Association.

The mayor of Finestrat also wanted to highlight “that it will be a short work, just two weeks and only maintenance work. "It will not affect the proper functioning of the hotel and restaurant sector and it will be done in a period that does not affect their work."

 

The planned works will have to be authorised by the Provincial Coastal Service of Alicante, of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, and with which the first procedures for authorisation have already begun.