Extends oil slick Nayarit and affects six beaches

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Officials are saying it is natural caused by large quakes in the area and has happened in previous years..

Extends oil slick Nayarit and affects six beaches

Municipal authorities assume cleaning and will not open until they are free of oil, they say.

Javier Santos, correspondent
Posted: 05/03/2012 20:59



Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit . The oil slick every day extends the so-called Bay of Banderas, in this county because its presence was detected on the beach in Bucerias, reported Municipal Civil Protection units.

This now number six in the municipalities affected beaches of Cape Current, Puerto Vallarta , Jalisco, and now add the beach of Bucerias, Nayarit.

Juan Pablo Gracia Castillon, ruler of Ecology Puerto Vallarta , said on Tuesday opened the two affected beaches in the south of the city, but acknowledged that staff currently remains cleaning them thoroughly.

"However we are on alert because now appeared in Bucerias" said the mayor Vallarta.

This beach was closed for recreational activities since last Friday was detected in the fuel and will be open until clean as not "fully, said Alfonso Ramirez, head of Civil Protection of Bay of Banderas.

 

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Report clean beaches in Riviera Nayarit

After the detection of oil on the beaches of Bucerias, tourism authorities pointed out that both the Semar as Civil Protection work in determining the source of fuel.

Javier Santos, correspondent
Posted: 04/05/2012 12:46



Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco . The beaches of the Riviera Nayarit are clean, safe and suitable for recreational use, said the head of the Municipal Tourism Department, Gerardo Navarrete Arambul, who ruled that the case of a contingency or a health risk.

After the detection of oil on the beaches of Bucerias, Arambul said that both the Navy and Civil Protection work in determining the source of fuel in the middle of last month was detected in Mayto beaches in the municipality of Cabo Corrientes, and later on two beaches of Puerto Vallarta .

He said the Navy, Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection, Civil Protection and state and municipal authorities, as well as hotels, are working in the removal of waste products especially those beaches seeking to be recertified.

 

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Cleaned the beach Pe?itas

The deputy Resources Natural Jalisco delegation of the Ministry of Environment announced the work of cleaning up the beaches.
The West
May 25, 2012

Ramon Frias Frias, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (OEM-Informex.) - Sellers of beach in Puerto Vallarta and students from the town of Tomatlan, Jalisco, with the support of traders from both municipalities will work this Friday in the beach clean Pe?itas, the Tomatl?n seaside town, where it was detected the presence of hydrocarbons.



The announcement was made ​​by the deputy of Natural Resources of the Jalisco delegation of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Isidro de Jesus Lucio Virrueta, who in an interview with THE WESTERN released background and progress in the research and work done to clean up the beaches.

The official recalled that since last April 17 was detected in Mayto beach in the municipality of Cabo Corrientes, the presence of spots by way of lumps, ranging from five to 30 centimeters in a strip about two meters and up to five kilometers from the beach where a turtle camp.

The inspector of the Federal Protection of the Environment (Profepa), Alejandro Manuel Alba Arcaute, reported in his report that the substance had been reported from 15 last month and had not affected the flora and fauna, however conducted a tour of the Villa del Mar beach in the same town without finding such waste material.

Late last month received another call from the Ecology Branch of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta and Civil Protection to report on the presence of oil on the beaches of Mismaloya and Boca de Tomatlan, which are being monitored from these dates. Lucio refers Virrueta that after receiving notice of foreign substances on the beaches Presidente Intercontinental, Twin Beaches and Garza Blanca, which was found organic matter decomposing litter. In the case of Garza Blanca, another was found a black substance viscous, sticky and difficult to remove with the characteristics of the oil, which made ​​cleaning, showed an approximate weight of two kilograms and was made ​​available for Civil Protection of the Government of Jalisco. was on 3 May when samples were sent of the substance of Guanajuato at the regional laboratory for appropriate analysis and the outcome was determined that it was crude oil and May 21, again a lesser amount, reported presence of the same substance on the beach Mayto municipality of Cabo Corrientes and similarly the beaches "Pe?itas" Tomatl?n Township. cleanup crews were organized to go to these places 25 and 26 May (Friday and Saturday), for which the City Council Puerto Vallarta will provide transportation for 90 people per day (beach vendors) and in the case of Tomatlan, High School students, actions to which is added the City of Cape Corrientes.