The General Directorate of Coasts communicated last Friday to the Association of Neighbors of El Perellonet, a district of Valencia, that today, Tuesday, an “urgent extraction of sand” will begin from its beaches. The news was received with discontent by the association, which expressed its complaints about the disregard of the administrations.
That is why yesterday the sub-delegation of the Government in Valencia summoned the neighborhood association to a meeting that will take place this Tuesday first thing in the morning. It is expected that the sub-delegate of the Government in Valencia, Raquel Ibáñez, as well as technicians from the Coastal demarcation, will participate. In it, sources from the Delegation explain, they will explain to the residents the procedure to follow and they will insist on the importance of dredging because the objective is to “protect l’Albufera”, they insist.
The extraction is resumed after the one planned and later suspended last September, when the transfer of sand from El Perellonet beach to El Perelló beach, a smaller local entity belonging to Sueca (Valencia), was canceled due to lack of agreement regarding this operation between the two population centers, as was already justified then by the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community.
Now the jobs will be recovered, the Government Delegation qualifies, because this is a “much necessary” action to protect the natural park of Valencia. The same sources assure that the operation has the consensus of the three administrations -Valencia City Council, Generalitat Valenciana and the central government- as well as favorable reports from both the Beaches service of the Valencia City Council, as well as the technical office of La Devesa- Saler, as well as the Natura 2000 Network Office, the European ecological network of biodiversity conservation areas.
The “emergency action” involves removing the sand barrier from the Gola de El Perellonet, the drainage route of l’Albufera and that, therefore, cannot be obstructed, they explain from the Government Delegation, who stress that the action is He does on these dates so that before the summer campaign “everything is solvedâ€.
This Tuesday, technicians from the Coastal Department are expected to come to analyze the terrain and carry out beaconing works, but in no case are trucks expected, as had been speculated. Given this possibility, the neighborhood association had planned concentrations if necessary.
Their contrary position is due, as they explained in a statement, to the fact that “our beach is in regression, it also needs urgent measures.” In this regard, the neighborhood entity criticized that no one had explained the details of the work to be carried out this Tuesday, “neither Costas, nor the Valencia City Council, nor the natural park, nor the Ministry, nor the Generalitat take our needs into consideration.” They argue that, in these times when there is talk of emptied Spain, “a few kilometers from Valencia in this district, which depends on the Valencia City Council, we are the emptied Valencia.”
