As happens every year, it was promised that work on the proposed, and desperately needed, sewage works in Nerja would begin by the end of the year (2009). The Council were, as usual, sceptical, having heard the same promise so many times.
The Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) has announced that the draft project and environmental study are being studied but the situation is ‘complicated’ and therefore it is not yet possible to put the contract out to tender.
It is now thought that the project could be put out to tender at some time in 2010, although this is unlikely. The Council fear that work may not begin until 2011 at the earliest.
One gets the feeling that there must be more to this never-ending saga than meets the eye. A sewage works is an essential item for a town the size of Nerja and the cost is relatively small.
In the time it has taken not to build one, or even put one out to tender, Olympic stadiums have been built, coastal highways carved through mountains, high-speed rail links constructed….the list is endless. Yet the construction of a small facility to process our residual waters seems beyond reach.
Other municipalities have not suffered the same fate, some have even managed to build two such plants, but Nerja remains one of the few without any form of water treatment, sewage still being pumped into the sea.
martin pocock says:
The town hall really must get to grips with this and they must realise if they are going to attract visitors to Nerja they have to clean up the beaches and the seawater, the treatment of sewage is a priority, tourists are very much more environmentally aware then they were 10 years ago, and demand a higher level of cleanliness, sooner or later Nerja is going to have an outbreak of poisoning caused by filthy seawater that will kill people. By that time it will be too late and Nerja will be known for its polluted beaches…
martin pocock says:
The town hall really must get to grips with this and they must realise if they are going to attract visitors to Nerja they have to clean up the beaches and the seawater, the treatment of sewage is a priority, tourists are very much more environmentally aware then they were 10 years ago, and demand a higher level of cleanliness, sooner or later Nerja is going to have an outbreak of poisoning caused by filthy seawater that will kill people. By that time it will be too late and Nerja will be known for its polluted beaches…
J Harwood says:
If you do not have a pool most of us swim in the sea. We come to Nerja most years but the sewage problem is putting us off and now looking elswhere.
J Harwood says:
If you do not have a pool most of us swim in the sea. We come to Nerja most years but the sewage problem is putting us off and now looking elswhere.