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Date Published: 28/04/2022
ARCHIVED - Torrevieja Town Hall plans million euro regeneration of popular beach
La Cula beach in Torrevieja is the Vega Baja town's most popular stretch of sand
Barely 500 metres long and just 25 metres wide, La Cula is Torrevieja's most popular beach, but as is the case with much of Alicante province's coastline, recent storms have taken their toll.
Due to its size, a spell of coastal phenomena can have a devastating effect, stripping the beach of huge stretches of sand and giving it an "almost raw" appearance, according to Torrevieja Town Hall.
"La Cula has a major problem due to a lack of sand, especially in the southern section of the beach, that closest to Tintero, that was particularly affected during Easter week," explained Councillor for Beaches, Antonio Vida.
To remedy the situation ahead of summer, the Town Hall plans to plough just over one million euros into the regeneration of La Cula introducing 20,000 cubic metres of sand.
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However, before any work can begin, the Ministry of Ecological Transition's Coastal Department must carry out a favourable marine and environmental study and there are concerns that a similar study for a regeneration project at Torrevieja's Los Locos previously took over a year to be completed, despite being of "little economic value".
"The La Cula scheme would be carried out with contributions of denser quarry sand, like at the beach of Los Locos, which against all odds have been maintained despite the storms. The project at El Cura plans to incorporate almost twice as much sand as was used at Los Locos," according to the local authority.
The relocation and shifting of sand to the coastline is hugely restricted by the Coastal Law, and councils can only move sand from "where there is an abundance to areas where it is scarce". However, some beach services reportedly "cheat" and use machinery to extract sand from the seabed.
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