The City Council of Candelaria (Tenerife) has established the closure of all the beaches of the municipality as the presence of hydrocarbons in the water has been detected again, a spill whose origin is unknown at the moment but which has already caused the closure, in more than one occasion in recent days, of beaches in the municipalities of Güímar, Santa Cruz and Arafo, as well as in Candelaria.
Yes We Can Canarias asks that the recent cases of contamination be investigated in several beaches of Tenerife
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This measure has been established as prevention after the Department of Health located in the water and on the shore the presence of stains.
With this decision, bathing on the beaches of the municipality is prohibited and the intensive cleaning service will be activated as soon as the tide allows it.
The Candelaria City Council had begun last Friday to gradually open the beaches after a closure also produced by the presence of hydrocarbons.
This Monday, the island group of Sí Podemos Canarias in the Cabildo has asked to investigate the origin of this spill, which it has described as an “environmental attack”, in order to purge responsibilities to whoever corresponds.
The Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council requested the same days ago, after detecting hydrocarbons in Las Teresitas and Las Gaviotas and decreeing the closure of Almáciga and Roque de las Bodegas.
