Council ensure a non-profit management of moorings

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The Council will ensure a non-profit management of moorings

F. Saborit Maó

The safety of swimmers on the beaches and the non-profit management of berths and moorings are the two rotating axes on coastal management in which the Council, as noted by the department responsible for the Territory, Joan Marquis, who has highlighted the cases of Es and Es Grau Canutells are pilot projects that serve to an overall design of the mooring and anchoring off the coast of Menorca.

"There is a tacit commitment to the competent authorities not to approve any project that would jeopardize the organization that leads the Consell insular," said Marquis. The Corporation has no competence in the field, but has reached agreements with Costas, Balearic Ports and Maritime to coordinate actions that will determine the capacity of berths and moorings in the coves of Menorca.

The Council also reserves, according to Marquis, the ability to rescue the concessions can be given to users' associations and mooring, as established in Es Grau, "if it generates business management." The coordinating role of the insular institution in the management of berths and moorings was endorsed by the board of mayors, who are represented in the eight municipalities of the island, and local governments are responsible for zoning and bathing concessions are granted to different activities for the occupation of the land area.

"These activities are interrelated and are beyond the interests of a single municipality," said Marquis. According to the Minister for Planning, boating activity is increasing and in many bays in conflict with the safety of bathers, as in the case of Es Grau, which this summer will move the input channel for vessels and increase the blade of water for bathing. Management systems should ensure berths and moorings, according to Marquis, accessibility and transparency in the allocation of time of use of each item.

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The Council refers to the project costs for managing moorings in Es Grau

F.Saborit Mahón

Of the eight acres that is the beach of Es Grau -60,000 hectares six square-meters, are intended exclusively for bathing, while the remainder will be used to access and moorings, it was announced yesterday by Minister of Land, Joan Marques during the presentation of the draft water management of the core of Mao.

The document emerged from the agreement between the government, neighbors and employers in the marine sector, will be given to demarcating Costas next week Once authorization is obtained, tethers and moorings will be managed by the Association of Users and fastening the residents have formed.

Es Grau alongside Canutells It forms part of a pilot management, the Council, as reported yesterday by the chairman, Marc Pons, working in an integrated design of moorings and moorings for the entire coastline Minorcan. Pons highlighted the implementation of management measures in a "rather complex", where the concentration of boats in the summer months is high. Also, the beach of Mao, which can be accessed through the public transport network, recorded a large number of bathers.

A third factor is combined in this project, highlighted during the presentation by the director of the Natural Park of S'Albufera Martí Escudero, is that it affects the core of the area declared a biosphere reserve. In this sense Escudero said that "it is necessary to convey to society that the park is especially delicate and should be avoided" impediments to the flow of water into the gola "which regulates the balance in the lagoon. The organization provides a reduction in the number of moorings, which will be 173 and those who joined the 64 existing concessions to the neighbors of the core. Although it is expected that the authorization and granting of discharge to be definitively resolved in 2010, this summer will be marked and enlarged the area of safety of bathers. For its part, the president of the Neighborhood Association, Joana Mora, acknowledged that the management of the island coastline beginning with Es Grau, because the situation had become untenable. "