Alcala-Alcossebre Mayor asks for European recovery funds to be used for the regeneration and protection of the local shoreline
Mayor of Alcala de Xivert, Francisco Juan, has written to the Coast and Sea General Management of the Ecological Transition Ministry to request them to take into account that the new European Funds for Recovery could be used for coastal regeneration and protection action which could include the Alcossebre coast. The Plan de Recuperación Económica, Transformación y Resiliencia, which will mean a contribution to Spain of 140,000 million euros in investments, contemplates the preservation of the coastal space and the water resources as one of its tasks and objectives. “Taking advantage of these European funds in a global action for our coasts could mean an historical opportunity for the preservation of our coastline, which would bring a definitive solution for the continuing deterioration of our coast and prevent it having to take action each year repairing the infrastructures, which would mean a constant waste of financial and material resources”, the Mayor emphasised.
In the document, Juan reminds those responsible at the Ministry that the Alcossebre coast suffers a precarious state along much of its length, due to the effects of continuous storms. Loss of the sand area, deterioration of the paving and rockfall are some of the problems which keep on happening. This situation has been reported to the Provincial Coastal Service repeatedly, including in January this year the municipal corporation approving an institutional declaration requesting that the central Government should act urgently on our shore, drawing up and carrying out a protection and regeneration plan for Alcossebre’s coast. But this has produced no response on this subject from central Government.
“It is seen that our case forms part of a problem which affects the whole coast of Castellón, which the Government of Spain is ignoring in a systemic manner. For this reason, with the entrance of European funds, we believe that the Government no longer has an excuse to invest in preserving our shore. For our municipality it is essential, both at an environmental and tourism level”, the Mayor insisted.
Mayor of Alcala de Xivert, Francisco Juan, has written to the Coast and Sea General Management of the Ecological Transition Ministry to request them to take into account that the new European Funds for Recovery could be used for coastal regeneration and protection action which could include the Alcossebre coast. The Plan de Recuperación Económica, Transformación y Resiliencia, which will mean a contribution to Spain of 140,000 million euros in investments, contemplates the preservation of the coastal space and the water resources as one of its tasks and objectives. “Taking advantage of these European funds in a global action for our coasts could mean an historical opportunity for the preservation of our coastline, which would bring a definitive solution for the continuing deterioration of our coast and prevent it having to take action each year repairing the infrastructures, which would mean a constant waste of financial and material resources”, the Mayor emphasised.
In the document, Juan reminds those responsible at the Ministry that the Alcossebre coast suffers a precarious state along much of its length, due to the effects of continuous storms. Loss of the sand area, deterioration of the paving and rockfall are some of the problems which keep on happening. This situation has been reported to the Provincial Coastal Service repeatedly, including in January this year the municipal corporation approving an institutional declaration requesting that the central Government should act urgently on our shore, drawing up and carrying out a protection and regeneration plan for Alcossebre’s coast. But this has produced no response on this subject from central Government.
