Blue flag for PP beach

[mike_dublin]

https://majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2018/05/08/51813/new-blue-flags-for-the-balearics.html

The Balearics have done Spain proud again, winning a total of 67 Blue Flags for beach, marinas and a new category, sustainable vessels this year.

... the good news is that Majorca has picked up three new Blue Flags, one for the hugely popular beaches in Puerto Pollensa and Cala Major and the Real Club Nautico in Palma. ...

[see full article on the MDB link]

 

[bobley]

32 Blue Flags for Balearic beaches

Spain, with 642 blue flags for beaches, tops the world rankings for another year. This international recognition endorses the quality of the waters, facilities and services on Spain's coastlines. Fifteen per cent of the world’s beaches with environmental flags are in Spain.

www.majorcadailybulletin.com

This headline hasn't aged well.

2018 - 67 Blue flags
2025 - 32 Blue Flags

No blue flag in PP. E Coli levels decidedly "hot" especially near Carrer de Llavant.

Someone's got their new bathroom plumbed into the storm drains.

 

[Sparky]

32 Blue Flags for Balearic beaches

Spain, with 642 blue flags for beaches, tops the world rankings for another year. This international recognition endorses the quality of the waters, facilities and services on Spain's coastlines. Fifteen per cent of the world’s beaches with environmental flags are in Spain.

www.majorcadailybulletin.com

This headline hasn't aged well.

2018 - 67 Blue flags
2025 - 32 Blue Flags

No blue flag in PP. E Coli levels decidedly "hot" especially near Carrer de Llavant.

Someone's got their new bathroom plumbed into the storm drains.

What is the source of this information?

 

[bobley]

What is the source of this information?

If you walk along the sea front you'll see each beach sign has a set of water quality results stapled to the bottom of the sign. The results on display are quite old but there's a QR code where you can visit a website and read the sampling history for each site. There are several sampling locations along the front with recommended water quality levels for bathing. The sites down at Gotmar or up at Formentor indicate fairly decent quality but the Albercutx report isn't very good and hence why the red flag is often flying in that area.

The stand out number for me was the E Coli reports. E Coli comes from untreated sewage, agricultural sewage and run off. Clearly there's no agriculture in the area behind PP so it's basically man made. The only other aspect to consider is the way the sea water is trapped by the sea wall so the water on Albercutx beach is quite stagnant so anything that goes into the water there will stay there.

My family has a bit of history in water treatment and environmental control so I'm a bit of a geek about this. I also like to park down in Llenaire and do the full walk up to Illa D'Or so I was checking all the numbers on my way past. From an engineering perspective this should be fixable...

 

[bobley]

Here's the website with the seawater bathing status (we're green now)

Salut ambiental-Resultats analítics

www.caib.es

The actual test logs are shown here

Sistema de Información Nacional de Aguas de Baño

This is the log for sampling point 3 adjacent to Carrer de Llevant. Point 2 at Bochoris is a little better but I dont know what happened last august but the E Coli levels here went over 12,000.

 

[mike_dublin]

Here's the website with the seawater bathing status (we're green now)

Salut ambiental-Resultats analítics

www.caib.es

The actual test logs are shown here

Sistema de Información Nacional de Aguas de Baño

This is the log for sampling point 3 adjacent to Carrer de Llevant. Point 2 at Bochoris is a little better but I dont know what happened last august but the E Coli levels here went over 12,000.

View attachment 64

Thank you for the link and the info.

That seawater bathing status might be a useful sticky link.

 

[mike_dublin]

32 Blue Flags for Balearic beaches

Spain, with 642 blue flags for beaches, tops the world rankings for another year. This international recognition endorses the quality of the waters, facilities and services on Spain's coastlines. Fifteen per cent of the world’s beaches with environmental flags are in Spain.

www.majorcadailybulletin.com

This headline hasn't aged well.

2018 - 67 Blue flags
2025 - 32 Blue Flags

No blue flag in PP. E Coli levels decidedly "hot" especially near Carrer de Llavant.

Someone's got their new bathroom plumbed into the storm drains.

I thought PP decided a few years ago not to go for the blue flag status anymore, as they didn't like the additional criteria of the blue flag organisation. Not sure, if that changed.

Here's a link to an old blogpost from Andrew Ede about it.

M

Post in thread 'Beds and brollies 2016.'

May 10, 2016

Blue flags from Andrew Ede

alcudiapollensa: What's The Point Of A Blue Flag?

• Molt de Renou

 

[bobley]

I thought PP decided a few years ago not to go for the blue flag status anymore, as they didn't like the additional criteria of the blue flag organisation. Not sure, if that changed.

Here's a link to an old blogpost from Andrew Ede about it.

M

Post in thread 'Beds and brollies 2016.'

May 10, 2016

Blue flags from Andrew Ede

alcudiapollensa: What's The Point Of A Blue Flag?

• Molt de Renou

We have 3 blue flags in the municipality (2 in CsV and 1 at Formentor) so the council appear to favour them. They appear to have done all the legwork and applied for those awards. Not applying for PP suggests they know they wouldnt get an award...

 

[mike_dublin]

We have 3 blue flags in the municipality (2 in CsV and 1 at Formentor) so the council appear to favour them. They appear to have done all the legwork and applied for those awards. Not applying for PP suggests they know they wouldnt get an award...

I did see the CSV and Formentor blue flags on the map in the most recent article.
Might well be the case, that they didn't apply, but it could equally be, that they didn't want to do the legwork for it.
Though getting blue flags awarded and then revoked also wouldn't look great.

...
FEE's Blue Flag criteria include standards for quality, safety, environmental education and information, the provision of services, and general environmental management ...
For a beach to be awarded, it must meet at least thirty of the Blue Flag's criteria spanning four categories.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flag_beach)