At the beginning of the 20th century, Bouzas was one of the most important fishing ports of the estuary, and was City Hall to the year 1904, when was absorbed by that of Vigo.
Since the first years 60 began to build there a backfill that never stopped to grow. It is the major and the most aggressive one of them perpetrated in our estuary, and represents a clear lands utilization example, teoricamente harbor, for well different uses.
In the photo the enormous space occupied by the deposit of cars can be observed of Citroën. So that this business had an adequate harbor infrastructure for the shipment of the vehicles, would exceed with one fourth. The remainder is storage, and should not occupy harbor lands. The ships of black ceilings correspond to the headquarters and to the offices of the Zone Franco of Vigo: Offices!!
Although it is foreseen that these installations of the Zone Franco (80.000 m2) abandon that location, (what added to other spaces recovered would leave free 230.000 m2) they want to expand the monster to do a new terminal of tenants.
This new enlargement, It indicated in reddish, would suppose a surface of 80.500 m2, for which would be necessary 840.000 m3 of rubble. Also it is foreseen the dredged of 630.000 m3 to obtain a penetrated of 20 meters, and would carry prepared a spike of 100 meters of long. In spite of the insistent official publicity, only a part of the enlargement would go on pivots.
The impact of this work on the currents, tightening a critical zone, would delay sensitively the renewal of the water of the Estuary. Something that one must add to the damages that every backfill and all dredged they produce to the marine ecosystems.
An enlargement that besides would be able to carry us to see, inside not a lot of time, petroleum docked in Bouzas, therefore the project of pipeline to the dry port of Salvaterra, threat also to this place.
The plan contemplates besides the construction of a macro water-treatment system (to see the point 3 of the map) and an artificial beach: tons of sand poured to the estuary regularly, in the western face of the backfill. And tons of sarcasm, after destroying the natural beaches.
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The collective one Bouzas you Move you It has called numerous mobilizations, with great neighborhood participation, against this project. Last September 28 delivered in the General Registration of the City Hall 4.635 firms Of citizens and civic as sample of refusal to the construction of a water-treatment system and to the enlargement of the backfill in the zone of Bouzas. |
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