On the mast in entrance of the Vapor, that ship that ran aground a century in the past on the coast of Zahara de los Atunes, the flag is already waving Blue flag. This badge comes a day after the controversy over the measure imposed by the Andalusian Authorities, which has restricted rest room on an space of 100 meters on the seaside of Atlanteanwithin the municipality of Tarifa, as a result of discharges from a close-by wastewater remedy plant.
Agustín and Antonio Conejo, president and councilor of Tourism and Festivals of the Native Autonomous Entity (ELA) of Zahararespectively, have collected the blue flag this Tuesday morning on the headquarters of the delegation of the Authorities of the Junta de Andalucía in Cádiz. An award that this city in Cádiz has obtained consecutively since 2019 and which involves endorse “the standard of the waters of Zahara seaside of the Tuna,” as Agustín Conejo factors out.
“Our city has many virtues, however its hallmark and origin is the seaside,” says Conejo.There are few like ours in the entire world.“And I am not saying this out of chauvinism, it is simply the pure actuality,” provides the president of this ELA.
Swimming is prohibited… in Tarifa
He assertion The report issued on Monday by the Division of Well being declared “Zahara de los Atunes Seaside unfit as a result of presence of wastewater from the Atlanterra remedy plant.” However one thing does not add up there: Atlantean It’s within the municipal district of Priceand the WWTP that serves this space is positioned about 4 kilometers from Zahara.
Following the analyses carried out, the Andalusian Authorities has determined to ban bathing “inside 50 meters on all sides of the spill” on the coast of Atlanterra. An space that, as Agustín Conejo declared to The Mail of Andalusiadoesn’t have an effect on Zahara: “If Tarifa is for the great, reminiscent of accumulating taxes, it should even be for the unhealthy. The data is flawed, and ultimately individuals will suppose that the issue is in our city, when it isn’t.”
The President and the Councillor for Tourism of Zahara accumulating the Blue Flag / GOVERNMENT DELEGATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN REGION
In line with Aqualia, the corporate that manages this remedy plant, “there isn’t any drawback with the discharges.” “We now have an authorization and water high quality refined fulfills with it legally established“, they element from this firm.
Cadiz receives 36 blue flags
This Tuesday the 36 blue flags awarded by the Affiliation for Environmental and Client Schooling (Aeac) to Cadiz, 30 similar to seashores and 6 to marinas. The occasion was attended by the Director Normal of Tourism, Francisco Montes, and Mercedes Colombo, delegate of the Authorities of the Junta, who highlighted “the significance of those awards awarded to our seashores, probably the most necessary symbols of our province.”
A kind of 30 distinguished Cadiz seashores, that of Zahara de los Atunes. There, on prime of the mast in entrance of the Steamer, the blue waves for an additional summer season. And that is the fifth one.
