Beaches in Spain’s Valencia region closed after “unknown material” washes ashore

Mysterious white particles that have been washed on a small section of the Côte de Valence in southeast Spain prompted the authorities to close a handful of beaches on Monday as a precaution.

The local administration of Guardamar de La SAFOR, in the district of the village of Southn Valencia, said in a Social media message that at least four beaches in the region would remain closed due to a “pouring of sailors possible affecting our area, with an unknown material present in the sand”.

The administration initially urged people not to swim as long as the equipment has not been identified and the risks it has been determined, but in a later position, it said that the beaches would be closed.

The local government said it was in regular contact with the competent authorities to follow the samples tests and ensure public security.

Photos published by the local authority have shown long wavy lines with small white particles, apparently washed on the ground by the tide, which seemed roughly the size of the rice grains.

They seemed similar in size to the small plastics of plastics that are shipped in the world as raw materials to make countless household and industrial products, but the Spanish authorities immediately gave no indication of what they thought that the equipment could be.

Local media Valencia Plaza Sources cited with the port authority of Valencian saying that the most important concentration of the contaminant seemed to be around the mouth of the Serpis river, which flows in the Mediterranean in Gandia, just north of the affected beaches. According to the sources cited by the exit, indicating a possible interior origin of the material.

At least four local beaches on the coast of Gandia were closed on Monday, Daimús, Guardamar de la SAFOR, Bellreguard and Miramar.

The affected area is more than 250 miles south of the lively city of Barcelona, ​​but it is just north of some of the most popular tourist beach destinations in Valence on the picturesque Costa Blanca.

Valencia Plaza reported that environmental samples, both in water and in unknown substance, had been taken for analysis from various points along the affected coast.