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Black Saturday
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Black Saturday
September 29, 2007 | Author: Carlos
This morning my wife and I woke up at approx 08:30 due to a strong sound happening outside. Since our bedroom leads to the river area it is unusual to have such a noise coming by this side. Shocking enough, the sound were caused by one of the 30-meters tall eucalyptus that populates the area, falling horribly to its death.
Soon we discovered that three men were chopping several of the ancient eucalyptus that grows close to the river (which is usually protected by the Cuenca Mediterranea Andaluza).
Having this happening on a saturday morning surely had to ring an alarm bell and my wife asked them through the balcony if they were townhall workers, to which they replied “Yes, we have permission”. Not happy with that I went down to meet them and asked if they were EUC workers, to which they replied “Yes, we have permission from the townhall”.
I then asked them the reason of the chopping of such an ancient and beautiful trees, and they replied it was due to the installation of some new pipes. They also mentioned their intention was to cut all the trees built behind their garage which (pardon me) grows in the floor that our Community owns. Once again this rang an alarm bell, since there is quite a lot of free space in the area to install a dozen of such pipes without having to disturb the trees. Furthermore, it was strange to find EUC workers doing their tasks in a saturday morning since said office is closed shut and all the machinery properly stored in their garages.
Pretty soon we discovered the reason of this: it was impossible to reach the former Hidrografica del Sur to ask if they had authorized the chopping of those trees. Hidrografica is the organization in charge of protection the course of the rivers and prevent any construction to be done in such places jus in case of floods, etc. Environment Protection offices, or the Townhall were also unable to reach. Our next option was to call the police to see if they could request the workers their permission to chop off the trees. Some minutes later, Local Police arrived the escene and - oh surprise - there was no permission to be seen.
The chopping of the trees is stopped by the police. They took photos and registered the names of the workers, and the chopping is halted until they present their permission. Unfortunately a number of them, with some 30 meters tall, were already cut and are now laying on the floor never to delight our walkings again. Curious enough, the trees falling caused the existing pipes to break and the detritus and all nasty waters are flooding the area and the river.
Our President and us went to took some photos of the trees and the worker there said no photos were allowed to be taken. Why not!? There is no need to say that here they are, of course, as we kindly informed him. We also noticed the EUC office has been pushing the land all over the river, probably to build a new area to storage their machinery, bricks and other miscellanous materials as they have done in the past. This is very disappointing to see as the trees were there for a reason: to keep the terrain fit preventing the course of the river to pull it.
The broken pipe and chopped trees
Death of a 30 meters tall tree
Terrain gained to the river
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Thank you Carlos for your vigilance