The Arrecife City Council has announced the “fine-tuning” of the beaches of Arrecife “with more personnel and more services”.
From the Consistory they point out that these measures will be noticed by “both the tourists who visit us in the high season that has begun, and the residents of the capital who continue to take advantage of the climatic benefits offered by the end of autumn.”
Daily, a team made up of eleven people, “ten laborers and one officer”, from the agreement with the Canarian Employment Service, through the program presented by the Arrecife City Council “Arrecife Form@ y Emple@ 2021”; will be distributed “among some of the seven beaches in the municipality, and also in the capital's playgrounds to remove all types of waste.”
The workers assigned to this cleaning campaign are divided into shifts among some of the seven beaches of the capital: El Reducto, La Arena, La Concha, El Cable, Barlovento, El Castillo or Las Caletas.
“A third of the tourists who come to the island visit Arrecife, the capital is the second most visited place in Lanzarote, according to a Promotur study; that's why, and because the residents of Arrecife deserve well-kept and clean beaches, that is why we continue to improve our beaches”, according to the mayor, Astrid Pérez.
Pro-Activa Serveis will be in charge of the surveillance of El Reducto
On the other hand, the Arrecife City Council informs that since last week “the contract for the award of the Surveillance, Rescue and Lifeguard service of El Reducto beach is already in force”, which was awarded to the company Pro-Activa Serveis for an amount close to 160,000 euros per year and with the possibility of extending it for another four.
Throughout this month of November, they add from the Consistory, “the service that contemplates the implementation of a surveillance tower will be in operation, 7,300 bracelets for the control of minors or people with reduced mobility, or the development of talks and workshops on rescue and lifeguarding.”
With the awarding of this service to El Reducto beach, the Arrecife City Council assures that it becomes “one of the best equipped beaches in Lanzarote, something that is accredited with the awarding last June of the blue flag of the European Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) for the period 2021-2022, for the fourth consecutive year, for the safety and surveillance, the quality of its waters and the environmental actions carried out by the Arrecife City Council, through the Department of Beaches.”