May 10, 2010

Formentera Island adapts Cavall d´en Borràs Beach.




Formentera Council (Balear Islands) expect that the beach Cavall d'en Borrás next summer will become the first of the island fully adapted for persons with reduced mobility. This was announced by the Environment Councillor island, Silvia Tur.

Toor said that this adaptation involves the intervention in both the wooden walkways and umbrellas on the beach, with a view to removing any barriers which affect their accessibility. Intervention within Cavall d'en Borrás is partial, since the summer of next year is to extend it to the beaches of Es Pujols and Migjorn. This is a plan that prompted beaches at the time the Platform for Physically Handicapped State Representation (Predif), which defends and advises the handicapped groups in projects of universal accessibility and accessible tourism.

Moreover, the first half of May will be installed the first four health services on the beaches of Caló and Migjorn. It is a wooden model specially designed for Formentera and whose cabins are equipped for disabled guests. The user must pay 50 cents per use and are trained to 700 applications each day. Beach entrepreneurs have reached an agreement with a local company for cleaning and maintenance.

Silvia Tur said formalities are being completed to renew contracts with contractors for beach services and being made a general cleaning of the entire coastal area of bathrooms, with the removal of the remains of sea grass in the city's most presence of this material.


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