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The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, has issued a municipal statement in which he informs that on Saturday, August 21, the 8th stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain will take place, whose itinerary runs through the main streets and avenues of the Torrevieja municipal term. For all these reasons, the roads and streets indicated in this Side will be cut off between 12:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. and between 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., traffic and circulation being totally prohibited. parking on these streets and avenues in this period of time. The withdrawal of vehicles from the route will be carried out from 04:00 hours on August 21 and, given the importance that this sporting event has for Torrevieja, the maximum collaboration of all citizens is requested.

The Mixed Company Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo (AGAMED), has reported on the evolution of water consumption in the city of Torrevieja in the period between June and July 2021, compared to the consumption of 2020 and 2019.

The Councilor for Sports of the Torrevieja City Council, Diana Box, together with the president of the Torrevieja Tennis Club, Igor Vinokurov, the director of the tournament, Humberto Zuleta, and the judge-referee of the tournament, David Pérez, have presented this morning the 43 edition of the “Ciudad de Torrevieja” Tennis Open, which will take place from July 31 to August 8 at the club's facilities in Los Balcones.

The ordination of the public use of the Municipal Natural Area "Molino del Agua" carried out in recent years, and a series of additional measures adopted during this season by the Department of the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council (and which had the collaboration of the Service of Wildlife of the Conselleria de Transición Ecológica and the Provincial Coastal Service), have contributed to at least 4 couples installing their nests as of May, on a linear extension of 370 meters of the total beach / dune complex. During the first spawns a total of 9 chickens were born, while in the second spawns there have been 4 more chickens that have managed to get ahead. In short, 13 new plovers were born in the "Molino del Agua" Municipal Natural Area during 2021.

The Torrevieja University Venue opens tomorrow, Wednesday, July 14, at 9:00 am, the summer course "The Pink Lagoon of Torrevieja: potential applications of its microorganisms", which will end on Thursday, July 15.

A sailing regatta that was born with the intention of remembering the figure of Gil Rebollo, a former councilman of the Torrevieja City Council and a person closely linked to the Marina Internacional Sports Port through sailing and sport fishing, two of his great passions. Eduardo Gil died in August 2020 and from this year it is intended to honor him with this regatta that will continue throughout the years.

This amount has been distributed between nominative grants, with an amount of 160,000 euros and free competition grants, with a total of 24,600 euros.

The total amount approved is 350,000 euros for the subsidy of sports clubs and 20,800 euros for the subsidy of sporting events and activities

A solidarity tournament in which 61 teams and 620 players will participate, in male and female categories in Senior (+16), cadet, children and youngsters, as well as the APANEE Adapted Sports Club (CADA).

The Councilor for Innovation and Modernization, Ricardo Recuero, has offered a press conference this morning on the occasion of the first anniversary of the implementation of Electronic Administration in the Torrevieja City Council. Recuero has emphasized the great advance that the digitization of administrative processes in the Torrevieja town hall has meant for our city, assuming cost and paper savings and, in the workplace, being able to work more efficiently, quickly and with greater productivity.

In recent years loggerhead turtles have chosen the beaches of the Valencian Community up to 8 times to lay their eggs, one of them, in the summer of 2015, in Torrevieja. But the attempts have been many more. For example, only in the Maritime District of Torrevieja that ranges from the mouth of the Segura river to El Mojón (municipal terms of Guardamar del Segura, Torrevieja, Orihuela and Pilar de la Horadada), the attempts have been a total of 6, having reached to locate, in the summer of 2018, a newborn turtle. Two of these attempts occurred last year 2020 on the Orihuela coast, although neither of them were successful.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, accompanied by the Councilor for Innovation and Modernization, Ricardo Recuero, and the head of Grupo Antón Comunicación, Susana Antón, presented the new corporate image of the Torrevieja City Council in the Hall of Plenary.