The director general of Transport and Ports of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Carmen Maria Sandoval in San Javier yesterday denied any possibility of construction of new marinas in the Mar Menor "which only consider possible extensions of removing moorings jetties and pontoons replacing them to minimize environmental impact, and the construction of marinas dry season and a mooring. "
Carmen Maria Sandoval made the remarks in moving the master plan for ports in your department working in one of the days of the Third Course on the Legal Regime for Sustainable Development, organized by the School of Legal Practice and sponsored by the Foundation for the Protection Cluster and Conservation of the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean Water Institute, which was held yesterday at the hall of the municipality of San Javier, which was opened by the Mayor of San Javier, Pepa García.
In his paper on "Coastal protection in the Region of Murcia.
Marinas, Sandoval addressed the master plan or strategic lines for the management of marinas in the region, "which aims to expand the number of berths and which identifies three areas: one in which no may introduce new marinas, an intermediate in which marinas can be built with certain conditions, and a third area where there are already ports, therefore, may be extended, with conditions determined by their location. "
Carmen Maria Sandoval said the Mar Menor, which is located in the area is ruled out building new ports, "accounts for 23 percent of the potential demand for berths throughout the Region, according to studies in that master plan.
Sandoval also pointed out the existence in the Mar Menor of illegal moorings "and therefore not be the competent authority in that matter, if we act in the way we can through the expansion of moorings with floating pontoons in the existing ports and dry marinas. "
The director general of Transport and Ports, Carmen Maria Sandoval said his department is working on a feasibility study for the construction of dry sea in different parts of Mar Menor.
Sandoval explained that it is "houses where boats with a maximum of eight feet, would be stored in locations near the sea, which may be even the existing ports to make them comfortable to use and the boats pass the ship water in ten or fifteen minutes. "
The day was completed yesterday with the presentation of Professor of Ecology at the University of Murcia Angel Ruiz Ruzafa in which he made a journey from the 80's to the present by the ecological evolution of the Mar Menor, and the changes that the opening of The Estacio and change dry land to irrigated agriculture in the area have resulted in the lagoon.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier