Beaches will replace the broken footbath in Poniente on the night of Wednesday to Thursday

The Department of Beaches of Benidorm City Council will replace one of the footbaths damaged during the storm last October after the Provincial Coastal Service has authorized this action. The councillor of the department, Mónica Gómez, has explained that “we are going to act on the footbath that was most damaged and that has been out of service for all these months waiting to be replaced.” Gómez has detailed that “this action is going to be carried out at night, the night of Wednesday 7 to Thursday 8, to affect as little as possible the ordinary activity of the beach, which in these days of August is very busy.”

To facilitate the action as much as possible, the section of Avenida Armada Española between Jaime I and Xixo will remain closed to traffic for approximately six hours, between midnight and 06.00 hours on Thursday 8. From the Mobility area they have informed us that while the cut lasts, only vehicles with an entrance will be allowed access to this section. The rest of the cars that want to access Poniente must do so from Avenida Vicente Pérez Devesa.

The head of Beaches has asked for “apologies” from residents and tourists “for any possible inconvenience that this night-time operation may cause”; and has clarified that “we have decided to replace this footbath in the middle of the high season to reinforce the service in this specific section of the beach, postponing until later the pending work on the other two footbaths, which were also damaged in the storm but are operational.”

Gómez has recalled that in January the City Council presented a project to remove the three footbaths located in the narrowest section of Poniente beach, in the vicinity of the Les Fontanelles spring and move their position to an area closer to the promenade to protect them from possible coastal phenomena. This project included the repair of the damaged devices.

Shortly before the San José long weekend and Easter, given that the Ministry had not yet authorised this project, the City Council sought a temporary solution to at least put the footbaths into service. After some work, two of them were put into operation, leaving the third, the most damaged, out of service. This last footbath will be replaced now, and the other two will be changed later.