The first lieutenant of the mayor of Badalona City Council (Barcelonès North), Àlex Montornès, has asked for "a strategy at country level" that includes the municipalities of Barcelonès North and the southern area of the Maresme against the drainage of waste water on the beach when it rains
As explained by the deputy mayor, one day the beach is closed causes an economic impact of 30,000 euros, some 160,000 euros throughout the year, and has asked the town councils of the affected area and the Department of Climate Action to common front to reverse the situation.
"A joint position is needed in the territory with the government of the country. Setting some objectives to solve the problem, commitment and an agenda", Montornès defended. The deputy mayor has highlighted that, according to the Bingo project, the effects on the total days of the summer season will go from 4 to 8% by the end of the century due to severe weather events, which would have an economic impact of up to 1.4 million euros per year in the city.
Montornès has requested the urgent replacement of the collector that collects rainwater and sewage and takes it to the Besòs treatment plant, which when it does not have the capacity to channel all the water, various overflows release it into the sea.
The councilor has assured that the deterioration of the coastline has caused this infrastructure to have "the days numbered", since it already suffered damage in a storm in 2017 and with the Glòria in 2020, despite the fact that it is a key tool "because it carries water to the Sant Adrià treatment plant".
The new collector, which is planned to pass along the promenade although it is a pharaonic work that depends on the Agència Catalana de l'Aigua (ACA), could be an "opportunity also to find other alternatives or size it differently if necessary. ".
Montornès has also summoned the Government of Spain to join in helping to find financing to solve this work, and has taken the opportunity to highlight its responsibility in cleaning the area of La Mora, adjacent to Sant Adrià de Besòs, which is contaminated by arsenic due to the activity industrial.
On August 5, a torrential rain that fell on Badalona caused a new episode of wastewater discharged on the Badalona coast, which forced the beaches to be closed to bathers due to the contamination of the water.
