The Town Hall of Abona granadilla has decreed Today, Friday August 11, the temporary closure of Playa Chica and the central and Leocadio Machado beaches, in the duneafter detecting in the analyzes that the levels allowed for the bath of, supposedly, the bacteria are exceeded E.coli. The red flag has been hoisted, temporarily prohibiting bathing.
From the Consistory it is reported that Only the central beach exceeds the levels allowed for bathing, but as a precaution the security perimeter is extended from Playa Chica to Leocadio Machado. It should be noted that although the samples taken on Monday and Tuesday yielded good water quality results, the last one carried out exceeded the permitted parameters.
Granadilla de Abona is one of the few municipalities in Canary Islands which carries out analyzes twice a week, taking samples from a total of 10 beaches, compared to the samples taken by Public Health every fifteen days in only six bathing areas, which guarantees exhaustive knowledge of the quality of the water on the coast. The beaches covered by this service are: Cueva del Trigo, Ensenada Pelada, La Jaquita, El Cabezo, Playa Chica, central beach of El Médano, Leocadio Machado, La Tejita, El Chinchorro and Playa Grande de Los Abrigos.
Today Friday, August 11, Samples have been taken again at these three points along the coast to carry out a counter-analysis by the municipal service. The City Council takes this measure to guarantee the safety of bathers, pending the results of the latest analysis, and as soon as they confirm that the waters are suitable for bathing, they will reopen.
Also, today the company Entemanser, awarded the maintenance service for the sanitation network, has been requested to study the real state of the network in the central beach area, apart from having requested an urgent meeting with he Island Water Council Tenerife in order to know the state of the works of the Granadilla treatment plant, a system that will fully purify the wastewater of San Isidro and the entire coast of the municipality.
