Dénia is preparing to recover part of the beach that erosion, accentuated by recent storms, took it away. The works have already begun on the coast and it is expected that the result will begin to be appreciated soon. Not this summer, because we will not see them finished for the next summer season. But if all goes well, it will be the last season without a beach in the area.
Most beaches de Dénia have receded and are today much narrower than a few decades ago. However, there is an area where the situation is particularly delicate: Les Deveses. The northern sector of the coast of Marines it has lost practically all its sand over 4,5 kilometres. Now they are working so that the place can be recovered and it looks like the wide beach it once was.
A few days ago, the recovery project in Les Deveses, promoted by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, began. Its objective? Stop the regression of the coastline and recover a width of the beach of at least 30 meters. But they are not only working for the recovery, but also for it to be maintained and to guarantee the stability of this new area of sand. They have budgeted that all this will have a value of almost 14 and a half million euros.
In this way, the works will consist, fundamentally, of the contribution of sand of marine origin from the underwater deposit, the construction of breakwaters that retain the spilled sand and the dune restoration, to reinforce the natural defense of the coast, through the following actions differentiating two sections.
When do you plan to finish? If all goes well, and if they have taken into account the storms that will surely come while the project lasts, it should be finished in 12 months. In other words, at the beginning of 2024 Deveses will once again have a beach.
More sand, restoration of dunes and new breakwaters
On the one hand, in Section 1 a breakwater will be built and the extension of the beach width up to 100 meters will be studied, creating a sand store for regeneration of other surrounding beaches. At the same time, 298.113 m3 of sand will be dumped to recover the beach environment.
For its part, in Section 2 another jetty will be created at the height of Río Grande street and the existing jetty on Setla and Mirarrosa beach will be remodeled and extended by 170 meters. Similarly, in the first section, 293.410 m3 of sand will be poured.
The underwater deposit from which the sand necessary for the regeneration of the coastal front will be extracted is located about 10 km from the stretch of coast between Valencia and Cullera, at a depth between 60 m and 80 m, and about 40 km north of the beach .
Additionally, the creation of new dune cords is proposed, where they have disappeared. The dune restoration will consist of the elimination of invasive species, the contribution of 50.195 m3 of sand (of the same origin as that used in the regeneration), the placement of collectors, the planting of dune vegetation and the installation of soft fences and piloted walkways. of wood.
The volume of sand necessary for the regeneration of the coastline (beach contribution and dune restoration) is estimated at a total of about 641.718 m3.
An 8 year process
In 2015, the Strategy for the Protection of the stretch of Coast between the Port of Valencia and the Port of Denia was approved. This document provides as a high priority, the actions that must be undertaken on Les Deveses beach to repair and prevent its erosion.
Once the "Recovery of the Les Deveses beach, TM de Denia (Alicante)" project has been drawn up, and after the processing of the appropriate and mandatory public information and official information, by resolution of July 23, 2021, the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Evaluation, dependent on MITECO, formulates a favorable Environmental Impact Statement, which was published in the BOE on August 10, 2021.
By resolution of November 3, 2021, the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea definitively approves the aforementioned project. In turn, on July 30, 2022, the tender notice for the works is published in the BOE.
Finally, on December 14 of last year, the award contract was formalized with the company UTE LES DEVESES, which will have an execution period of 12 months.
It would be better if they cleaned the ones that are there.
They are full of rotting pisidonia, fleas and mosquitoes.
MAYOR RESIGNATION.
I hope that the rehabilitation of Deveses beach is accompanied by the obligation to undertake, in parallel, the municipal abandonment of sidewalks and promenades (even if it is with boards) that connect the coast along the Carretera de les Marines. I have not seen anything like it anywhere on the coast. At present it is a real shame.
And I was thinking that they were going to make a new beach... and it's not a headline that tricks us into playing
So why do they take away the properties of the homes of 1800 people? What a shame that a law has been passed to steal from the owners. And the city council has done nothing to prevent it.
Nothing has been stolen. Shame on you who have the privatized beach.
Ich bin genau der gleichen Meinung, wie Valencia
Excuse me?