Summer is here and beaches of Dénia begin to overflow with life. In the coming weeks, the entire Dianense coastline will be filled with people bathing or sunbathing. Some of those who seek to reconnect with their corner by the sea will find a beach with an extension like no one remembered. But others, no matter how hard they search, will not find anywhere to throw in the towel, because while some have grown, other beaches have disappeared.
They are the two sides of the coin this summer: the side of Les Deveses and the Blay Beach cross. One has managed to revive and even recover her Blue flag, the other is not that it is running out of sand, it is that the sea has already swallowed up what there was and has begun to make its way among the frontline private properties. The first has an optimistic future for the coming decades, but the second cries out for help that does not arrive because attempts to help it come face to face with administrations that evade responsibilities.
It has taken many months of work, but Les Deveses has been able to recover from years of decline thanks to the 650.000 cubic meters of sand that have been used for its regeneration. Now, in its narrowest sections it is 30 meters wide, in some areas it even exceeds 100. An image similar to that of the 60s, and very far from the coast in recent years. In addition, large breakwaters have been built to prevent the unstoppable retreat from being imminent after such an investment, calculating that it will last for at least a quarter of a century.
The pending cross
For its part, Marines It has a section that stopped dying a long time ago. The beach popularly known as Blay Beach, past the Les Bassetes park, has passed away.
Driving through Les Marines you can regularly come across lifeguards on the road at that point dressed in their rescue cans moving from one place to another. An image that can shock, if you don't know the state of the beach. In that stretch there has been no sand for years, and the waves directly impact the urbanizations, reaching inside them. You can't walk along the shore, because there is no shore.
Although the north beach has been regenerated, Blay Beach remains largely forgotten. Costas has not shown interest in recovering this part of the coastline, with the local administration having to take over its future. There was some hope that this would lead to a solution for this summer, but it seems that it will not come so quickly.
The Provincial Coastal Service has requested from the Dénia City Council reports on the flora and fauna of the beach waters to grant authorization to dump sand there to recover it. But since the council does not have the technical means to carry them out, it will soon sign an agreement with the Institute of Coastal Ecology to carry out these studies and thus be able to continue with the processing. As expected, this performance would take place for the next season, at least.
The sea will take over everything sooner or later. Human intervention only delays the inevitable and changes the tides
Man, if we get like this, sooner or later a meteorite will arrive and destroy the earth. Imagine that in the Netherlands, which are below sea level, they did nothing and did not have a system of dikes to contain the sea.
There is much less chance of a meteorite than what the partner said. And it is due to human stupidity and short-termism.
Amen
An obvious example of when the administration ignores
The administration drafted a cost law that no one took into account. Of those dusts…
Many years ago there were breakwaters along the entire Ls Marinas beach because the problem of beach degradation dates back a century. It's not about climate change or anything like that.
Some experts (real experts) said that the construction of the port of Dénia caused a change in coastal currents and that causes sand to leave the beaches.
That's why the breakwaters were built and it worked.
A few decades ago, some smart people in the political world decided to buy a dredge and remove the breakwaters and fill the beaches to the brim, throwing sand from the bottom and killing all the life that was on the beaches and in the breakwaters.
That lasted until a couple of storms and the problem has been repeated ever since.
It is not the first time that the Almadrava or the Balay Bea h or other sites have been regenerated.
We seem to not learn and make the same mistakes.
Hello, I remember that moment perfectly, but I seem to remember that the dredge was bought, the breakwaters were built, the beaches were recovered, and years later a group of "green" people said that this was bad for the seabed, and they removed the breakwaters. . To this day, the remains of those barriers can still be seen. Maybe I'm wrong, well let's see it coming!
I think the "green" group has already warned of the consequences of the marina. But of course, some prefer to look like a yacht and others like to look like an image. And so it goes
Instead of making pedestrian streets and parks, invest more in beaches and work.
I flatly refuse that a single euro of everyone's taxes goes to generate beaches for the enjoyment of the neighbors. Let them pay for it...
Are you...resentful? Would you say the same if the street where you usually park wasn't paved or repaired? Beaches are for the enjoyment of neighbors and other citizens.
Molt bé
The problem is the cases that have occupied the space so that the shaguera has moved the beach
to forocoches
Apply to place the breakwaters that are necessary and then add the corresponding sand to recover said beach.C
Exactly the same as Tavernes de la Valldigna beach, La Goleta beach to hell.
If some government leader had some property or spent his summers in the area, the problem would have been solved. That is, if the neighbors know that they pay exorbitant taxes and are not speculators, rather people who have lived there all their lives. My mother is 85 years old. and he has always lived in Blay Beach since he was 13. Now that he is older he cannot cross the scree to take a bath Mr. Mayor. Don't you feel embarrassed? Or do you consider that there are first class neighbors and others second class? ?
The first class can have their house on the seashore.
Secondly, we have to travel and pay with our taxes for the arrangement so that his mother can bathe comfortably.
Jerónimo doesn't realize that you are a resentful and boring troll, go to forocoches
They have left all their money in Les Deveses.
How about some breakwaters parallel to the coast, like they do in Postiguet in Alicante? And Marineta Casiana? It is a shame that the most beautiful beach in Denia is in such a deplorable state... 30 years ago it had meters and meters of sand along its entire length. It can't be that complicated!
If some government leader had some property or spent his summers in the area, the problem would have been solved. That is, if the neighbors know that they pay exorbitant taxes and are not speculators, rather people who have lived there all their lives. My mother is 85 years old. and he has always lived in Blay Beach since he was 13. Now that he is older, he cannot cross the scree to take a bath. Mr. Mayor. Don't you feel ashamed? Or do you consider that there are first-class neighbors and others from second?
It is necessary to regenerate all the beaches that are bad in Denia. The Defense Neighborhood Associations of Playas Norte de Denia, Playas Deveses-Basit, Almadraba, and Les Basetes have always demanded, and especially since the first storm of 2017 and after Gloria, the regeneration of the three beaches in Denia that were essential due to their poor condition: Les Deveses, Blay Beach and Marineta Casiana. Projects for its regeneration exist but have been paralyzed since 2015 in the Ministry of Ecological Transition, despite the many letters, and meetings with the Territorial Coastal Directorate of the Ministry in Alicante, with the Mayor and even with those responsible for the Ministry, in addition of demands in the press, radio and TV. In the end the Ministry began to regenerate Cullera and Les Deveses because it seems that they were the first to receive demand more than 10 years ago. They have always told us that the other two from Denia would come later. But if we do not claim, unfortunately they will not listen to us and it will be delayed even more! I hope that the authorities will get ahead of the neighbors and regenerate the beaches NOW, because it is embarrassing to see how Blay Beach is. And also the beaches are a common good for the enjoyment of ALL neighbors, those who live there and those who want to go and enjoy them!
Well said Rosa