Almost a total of 100 kilometers of Valencian coast are, at this moment, destroyed by the effects of DANAwhich devastated certain regions of the Valencian Community last Tuesday October 29.
The Valencian coast, from Pinedo to Dénia, It was completely devastated after the storm. The shores of the beaches of Sueca, Gandía or Cullera are found lots of reeds and other waste which were washed away by floods and torrential rains. This is why many of them have had to close to prevent risks, both in terms of public health and safety.
“Never in our lives have we seen something of this magnitude.“, complains a neighbor, who highlights the enormous piles of reeds, as well as the size of the trees that have reached the shore.
Everything that DANA dragged ended up on the beach, like that of Cullera, where the municipal brigades are overwhelmed by the recovery work. “We are removing little by little what we can, but the quantity of canes to be removed is enormous and the situation we find ourselves in is not sustainable“, he reports.
This same image, that of the shores full of reeds and sedimentis repeated on other beaches on the coast, such as Pinedo, Saler, Sueca, Oliva or Gandía. It even reaches Denia, in Alicante.
In towns like Sueca, we are already starting to have health problems, but the cleaning process promises to be long. Before removing it, all authorities want make sure there are no human remainsthis is why they assigned several “canine units, helicopters and drones” to comb the banks and make sure.
Added to the duration is the high cost, because special treatment of the waste must be carried out and this costs the Town Hall money. “For someone like Sueca, it’s complicated,” reports Pilar Moncho, deputy mayor of Sueca, since the materials that flood the beaches cannot be thrown “neither in an ecopark nor burned.” “We were valued break the bank at two and a half million euros Without treatment it is impossible,” laments Salvador Tortajada, deputy mayor and beach councilor of Sueca. This is why they hope that after those affected at Ground Zero, they will be the second to receive aid.
