Joan Gual de Torrella proposes working in conjunction with the City Council to keep the Bay of Palma clean to the Regional Minister of the Environment
Palma
10/11/2017
The president of the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB), Joan Gual de Torrella, has written to the Regional Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vicenç Vidal, to propose co-ordinating efforts with the City authorities in order to keep the Bay of Palma clean.
In response to recent complaints about the presence of waste and debris along the Palma coastline, the president of the APB’s proposal to the Regional Minister is for action that “will have a more preventive effect, although I am sure that your own technical teams, together perhaps with outside experts, are able to offer suitable assessment and solutions to this problem, which has become the object of sizeable public outcry”- Gual acknowledges.
In his letter, Gual points out that the APB already undertakes clean-up operations of the inner port waters with an annual collection rate of 185 cubic metres of waste “generated both by business inherent to the Port and by drain channels, sewage pipes or garbage coming from the open sea”.
The president of the APB concludes in his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to the Mayor of Palma, Antoni Noguera, that “enjoyment of the city of Palma along the beachfront promenade with its unobstructed views must be considered an absolute priority for any of the three administrations”.
