Overview
- The Concello of Baiona lifted prohibitions at A Ribeira, A Ladeira and Santa Marta after Consellería de Sanidade analyses found bathing-water quality suitable on Friday, July 31.
- July produced a record number of red-flag closures in the Ría de Vigo with the highest E. coli and enterococci readings since monitoring began in 2008.
- Xunta technicians and the sanitation concessionaire Gestagua are taking systematic samples along the Río Miñor to find where fecal contamination is entering the estuary.
- Officials are investigating specific causes such as sewage-pumping or treatment failures and exceptional sewer overflows from intense rain as possible triggers for the recurring episodes.
- The river’s mouth has long been affected: the Foz do Miñor has been closed to shellfishing since 2010, raising economic and tourism concerns if the basin-wide probe finds chronic infrastructure or discharge problems.