In Candelaria, the microalgae disappeared and unexpectedly, five years later, they returned to make an appearance over the weekend in two of the busiest beaches in the municipality, Los Guanches and Punta Larga, reopened for bathing yesterday. They also reopened, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, the so-called Central beach of El Médano and El Chinchorro, while we only have to wait for today’s analytics to do the same with the tile, which for now remains closed to the bathroom. In the case of these three coves, the reason for the prohibition of bathing was due to garbage and mud due to runoff produced after the rains on Thursday.
Within this chapter of incidents, it is also worth mentioning the closure, although it was only on Friday, of La Pinta beach, in the municipality of Adeje. On this occasion, it was due to the high percentage of E-Coli that was collected in a sample by the Health Service of the Adeje City Council. The next day the same analysis was carried out and it was negative, thus reopening the beach for bathing. This contamination is believed to have been caused by a spill from a ship. La Pinta beach is almost a closed cove that is right at the mouth of Puerto Colón.
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Both Los Guanches and Punta Larga beaches, as well as others in the municipality of Candelaria, were subjected to controls over the last few days since a cyanobacterial bloom was detected last Friday, a natural phenomenon that it takes place under certain circumstances that favor the multiplication and accumulation of these planktonic organisms in periods that can last just hours, but also days. They are commonly called microalgae, which in 2017 were around the entire island of Tenerife for a long period of time.
“The Department of Health has monitored the situation over the weekend and already this Monday no presence of them has been detected in the water or near the coast. Similarly, users of the beach are warned to be careful when bathing in the coming days”, they indicated yesterday from the City Council of Candelaria.
As for what happened further south, it should be remembered that it was also last Friday when the Granadilla City Council went further and proceeded to prohibit bathing in the Central beach of El Médano, as well as in La Tejita and El Chinchorro, “due to the runoff of rainwater that occurred on Thursday.”
Then, the Chasnero Consistory explained that it had made such a decision “as a precaution and in order to guarantee adequate levels of safety for the population, pending the results of the relevant counter-analyses”, a decision that was still in force yesterday only on the beach of La Tejita.
From the Consistory of Granada it is expected that throughout the day the ban on bathing in La Tejita can be lifted and regarding the causes of those closures on Friday it is indicated that “the rain dragged a lot of crap, pieces of wood and mud was formed in the mouths of those beaches”, they reported.
