Three beaches in the Coruña metropolitan area will remain closed to the bathroom this year by order of the Consellería de Saúde, in charge of water analysis. They are the Ría de de Barrañán in Arteixo, the port of Santa Cruz in Oleiros and the beach of O Regueiro in Bergondo.
Something that may seem contradictory, since the Xunta de Galicia itself prohibits swimming permanently on this beach. However, the mayor of Bergondo, with whom we spoke this morning, explained to us that with the council’s own analytics, the beach would be suitable for swimming.
Every summer Sanidade personnel carry out up to 10 controls in the bathing areas of Galicia, If the results are bad for four seasons, the area is closed. If the councils want to recover it, they will have to make the appropriate changes and communicate them to the regional administration so that this includes again the sandy areas in the census of suitable bathing areas. At Radiocoruña we have spoken with Angel Gómez, he is the general deputy director of environmental cliff control for a saúde.
Listen to Angel Gómez, Deputy General Director of Environmental Health Risk Control at Play SER
This is why there may be situations in which the results are good but the beach remains closed if the council does not communicate the changes made to the Xunta.
This is the case of the council of Bergondo. The beach of O Regueiro already has positive results according to its mayor, Alejandra Perez. However, they still have to send documentation of the improvements they have made in this area. The beach has been cataloged at the same time within the Galicia Surfing circuit, a project of the Xunta de Galicia that identifies those perfect beaches for surfing.
90% of the beaches of A Coruña are suitable for swimming.
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