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ISSUE NO. 1790
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BOATS ABANDONED MORE than 400 beached and abandoned boats have been inspected by the town council of Rincon de la Victoria as part of the final phase of a major beach clear up. The environmental department has issued a warrant to remove a number of vessels as part of the beach management project that will regularise the docks on the beach areas of the municipality and remove unregistered boats. M a y o r o f R i n c o n , S e rg i o Diaz (PP), authorised the first phase of the project which involved the inspection of over hundreds of vessels currently beached along the shoreline and in varying stages of abandonment. Stickers were placed on the boats warning they will be confiscated and disposed
FOUND: Missing hiker discovered safe and well after 13 hours.
MISSING HIKER FOUND
CLEAN UP: The region’s undocumented boats will be removed from the beach if not claimed.
of if not claimed. The purpose of the scheme is to “ensure safety, health, environmental protection and beaches through different pe-
riodic actions, because these boats are often undermined by the use and time,” said the mayor. Removals were made in
25% cut in water supply THE Regional Government of Andalucia has informed farmers in Axarquia that their yearly allowance is to be cut by 25 per cent. The board cites drought conditions and extremely low levels of the La Viñuela reservoir for the cuts, which leaves any farmer with land below the 140 level facing a reduced water allowance for the upcoming year. In the last hydrological year, just 385 litres per square meter has fallen in the area which has brought the reservoir to drought levels of just 51.5 per cubic hectometre. Because of this, the allocation for irrigation to farmers in the region have seen their allocation cut from 4,000 cubic meters per hectare per year to 3,000 cubic metres per
CUTS: The water board has reduced the yearly allowance to Vinuela farmers by 25 per cent. hectare from November going forward into the new year. The cuts will affect around 5,000 hectares of irrigated farmland in the area of the Guaro Plan. According to the spokesman of the Central Board of Users, Alejandro Clavero, the cuts are to ensure
that there are supplies for the upcoming summer season. During the announcement on Tuesday, it was also insinuated that any farmer above the 140 level will see their supplies cut until the reduction is re-evaluated in January.
To r r e d e B e n a g a l b o n l a s t week and will continue along Arroyo Totalan, San Juan and south of the Urbanisation of Calaflores in La Cala Moral.
A HIKER reported missing while on a trek with friends has been found. The alarm was raised by his friends after three men set off to hike the peak of La Maroma in the Sierra Tejeda-Alimajara y Alhama. At around the point of the Tajos Lisos, one of the men began to fall back and lose contact with his friends. After noticing they were a man down at midday last Thursday, they turned back to find their friend, but he was nowhere to be found. The two hikers, of foreign nationality, descended back to base and alerted the emergency services. Officers from the Consortium Provincial Fire Provincial Provincial Council of Malaga, the Civil Protection Service Canillas de Aceituno and the Guardia Civil were dispatched to comb the area in search of the missing hiker. After 13 hours and with the aid of a search helicopter, the man was discovered shortly after 1am. Reports from the Civil Protection organisation suggest he was exhausted, but otherwise in good health. He has been taken to Hospital Comarcal de la Axarquia for further checks.