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The Department of Beaches will replace the broken footbath in Poniente on the night of Wednesday to Thursday

 

 

• The City Council has already received permission from the Coastal Authority to act on the footbaths damaged in the October storm
• A section of Armada Española Avenue will be closed to traffic for six hours

The Department of Beaches of the Benidorm City Council is going to replace one of the footbaths that was damaged during the storm last October, after the Provincial Coastal Service has authorised this action. The councillor of the area, Mónica Gómez, has explained that “we are going to act on the footbath that was most damaged and that in fact has been out of service for all these months waiting to be replaced.” Gómez has detailed that “this action is going to be carried out at night, the night of Wednesday 7 to Thursday 8, in order to affect as little as possible the ordinary activity of the beach, which is very busy during these days of August.”

 

To facilitate the action as much as possible, the section of Avenida Armada Española between Jaime I and Xixo will remain closed to traffic for approximately six hours, between midnight and 06.00 hours on Thursday 8. From the Mobility area they have informed that while the cut lasts, only vehicles with a ford will be allowed access to this section. The rest of the vehicles that want to access Poniente will have to do so from Avenida Vicente Pérez Devesa. 

 

The head of Beaches has asked for “apologies” from residents and tourists “for any possible inconvenience that this night-time operation may cause”; and has clarified that “we have decided to replace this footbath in the middle of the high season in order to reinforce the service in this specific section of the beach, postponing until later the pending work on the other two footbaths, which were also damaged in the storm but are operational.” 

 

Gómez has recalled that in January the City Council presented a project to remove the three footbaths located in the narrowest section of Poniente beach, in the vicinity of the Les Fontanelles spring and move their position to an area closer to the promenade to protect them from possible coastal phenomena. This project included the repair of the damaged devices.
 
Shortly before the San José long weekend and Easter, given that the Ministry had not yet authorised this project, the City Council sought a temporary solution to at least put the footbaths into service. After some adaptation work, two of them were able to be put into operation, leaving the third, the most damaged, out of service. This last footbath is the one that is going to be replaced now; and the other two that are active will be changed later.