The departments of Beaches, Environment and Citizen Security of the Dénia City Council have coordinated efforts to start up all the rescue and first aid services, surveillance and cleaning of beaches in the face of the arrival of the high summer season in the municipality.
Lifesaving Service
Councilman beaches, Óscar MengualHe explained that this year will go to relief workers rescue service 42, 8 4 responsible for posts and patterns boat during the high season, from the 1 31 July to August. During these two months the time Lifesaving on the beaches will be 10 19.30 hours to.
As a novelty, this year new surveillance points have been installed, especially on the beaches of Les Rotes y Punta del Raset, which have obtained the distinction of Blue flag.
Again this summer have installed three points bathroom beaches Raset, Marineta Casiana y Bovetes, which will come into operation next week.
Monitoring
Javier ScottoCouncilman of Public Safety, announced that the summer special device was launched on June 15 and includes a total of 12 effective on beaches and, new, incorporating a patrol agents -2 more- support. As for material means, police use for their surveillance 4 quads -two more than last summer, two bikes, a semi-rigid boat and two jet skis.
The work of the local police will focus on the control of beaconing to avoid undue situations, support for monitoring the marine reserve of Cap de Sant Antoni and rescues to carry out maritime rescue, strengthening the work of rescuers especially when waving the red flag, motorhomes control and regulation of traffic access to the beaches.
Cleaning
15 from June until September 30 is active peak season Cleaning the beaches of Denia. Technical Department of the Environment, José Antonio Martínez, said that this service is provided by the Pavasal awarded for four years.
For high Temprado, human resources for these jobs increased by 185% over the shoulder season and machinery is reinforced also working at night, from midnight until morning 8.
Among the novelties of this year is the authorization of two new marked channels in the Els Poblets section and on the beach Molins, as well as the installation of twelve chemical toilets at different points along the coast, in addition to the five available in the beach bars and the other three that are enabled on the beaches with adapted bathing.
San Juan special device
Next week is the San Juans night, which thousands of people will celebrate on the beaches of Dénia. For that day, 16 agents will be assigned to the special afternoon service to control access to the beaches with the greatest influx -Marineta Cassiana, Raset and Albaranas- from 19:9 p.m. At night, XNUMX troops will be assigned for surveillance tasks at these points.
Cleaning tasks will also be strengthened with two trucks and shovel again that work will start at 4 in the morning.
My opinion is that the beaches are less prepared this year in two aspects:
- Number of lifeguard chairs, specifically in the rte area. Fernando where others settled a couple more
- The signaling buoys for the swimming area have not been installed from the part of Blay Beach (where by the way the sand is replaced at a cost of € 35.000 according to information provided by this newspaper), to the tip of Raset.