Los Patos beach has been officially closed and without access for ten summers in a row; the guanchera beach of Santo Domingo adds 15 years of waiting for some works that do not arrive, and in Los Silos they already suffer three summers without being able to bathe in a pool that Costas wants to destroy, as in Las Aguas.
Summer is the right time to take a dip in beaches and swimming pools, but Some municipalities in the north of Tenerife, where there are few bathing areas, suffer closures that last forever and that, with the arrival of summer, they hurt again. The most serious cases occur in La Guancha, La Orotava, San Juan de la Rambla and Los Silos. The guanchera beach of Santo Domingo has restricted access since 2007 and the works that would allow its reopening are still pending 15 years later; the villera beach of Los Patos has been closed for ten summers, with the hope that the work on the stairs will finish in time to reopen it before the summer of 2023; the Las Aguas rambler nucleus lost its swimming pool in 2010 and Costas has announced that it will invest 1.7 million to demolish it completely, and Los Silos suffers the same threat with a swimming pool that they have not been able to enjoy in the last three summers.
Los Patos beach is officially closed since July 2013, due to the closure of the old staircase due to the existence of a serious risk of collapse and accidents. It is the only one that for now sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The reconstruction works of the staircase and the access path, which began in 2014 with a budget of 106,000 euros, are now reaching their final stretch with an investment of around 650,000 euros. Executed in more than 50%, the Canary Islands Government confirmed on May 19, 2022 that the forecast is that this area of the protected agricultural area of El Rincón will recover its safe access “in the last quarter of the year”, between October and December 2022.
The General Directorate of Coasts and the Sea of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge of the Government of Spain said in February of this year that it would invest 1.7 million euros in the demolition of the old Las Aguas pool, in San Juan of the Rambla. A demolition that will leave a useless void for leisure at sea, since the project to expand the beach, which was announced in 2006, has been ruled out.
Santo Domingo beach is still completely closed and has not been reopened since 2010. The residents of La Guancha had already been suffering since 2007 some restrictions to access this cove due to the risk of landslides. And so many years later, there is no solution on the table.
Los Silos has been facing Costas’ stubbornness for three summers in preventing the reopening of its pool and defending its disappearance. An incomprehensible position for the residents of the Low Island. The Garachico City Council has not been able to open the municipal swimming pool this year either, but the mayor, José Heriberto González (CC), assures that it will be available in the coming days. Nor is it considered that this closure will go beyond July.
