The Tías City Council has asked Costas for authorization to regenerate Playa Chica with sand from Los Pocillos. The Consistory hopes to obtain the necessary authorizations before next summer "to ensure that this unique cove on the coast of Puerto del Carmen has a better appearance after the loss of aggregate due to the strong waves caused by the storm Emma.
The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, held a meeting this Wednesday morning with the head of the Demarcación de Costas of the Canary Islands, Rafael López Orive, who traveled to Lanzarote at the request of the City Council to assess and learn about the damage registered by the storm in Puerto del Carmen last week. The mayor was accompanied by the Councilor for Beaches, Nerea Santana, and López Orive by the Costas technicians in Lanzarote and in the Demarcación de Canarias.
In this meeting, where they toured the beaches of Los Pocillos, Playa Grande and Playa Chica, the mayor of Tías informed the Head of the Demarcación de Costas that the Tías City Council wishes to execute, before next summer, a regeneration of Playa Chica, the most volcanic and rocky of the coves of Puerto del Carmen. According to what they explain from the Consistory, since these are natural beaches, the Costas regulations require that the aggregates do not come from quarries and "in the Los Pocillos area, of great extension, there is sand accumulated by the action of the wind in an area of its perimeter from where the Department of Beaches intends to extract it", but Costas must authorize these works.
Extracting sand from the seabed for Playa Grande
The mayor also shared with the head of Costas the preliminary studies of the investigation commissioned by the Consistory that confirm the finding of sand bottoms on the coast of Puerto del Carmen, with which it is intended to regenerate Playa Grande, where the storm also aggravated the loss of sand "between one and two meters of altitude in a large extension".
For this, the mayor confirmed that the Tías City Council has a project underway to achieve the viability and mandatory environmental authorizations from the Canary Islands and Costas so that the extraction of that sand accumulated for decades in the seabed is authorized and in the meeting this Wednesday, the steps to follow to achieve said authorizations were addressed
Damage to the pier and the breakwater of Playa Grande
From Tías, the damage registered in the pier of La Pila de la Barrilla, where the pavement was raised, and in a section of the breakwater on Avenida de las Playas, areas where the City Council wishes to act to repair the damage, was also jointly assessed with the technicians of the Demarcación de Costas.
The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, expressed his gratitude to the head of the Demarcación and the Costas technicians "for the good predisposition and agility with which they are working to resolve the administrative issues raised".