The Municipality of San Ferdinand intensifies its battle for the protection of the marine environment and the coastal landscapeby launching an extraordinary monitoring and control campaign of the purification activities and any abuse of water networks. The initiative is part of a long -term strategy that aims to defend the tourist vocation of the territory and preserve its environmental reputation.
In recent years, the municipal administration led by the mayor Luca Gaetano He started a synergistic work with the Calabria Region, Arpacal, Port Authority and other entities in charge of environmental supervision, promoting coordinated actions against the pollution of the waters and of the protection of natural resources.
But summer 2025 is marked by a new environmental emergency: the so -called “green sea”, a phenomenon that is affecting large stretches of the Calabrian coast. A criticality that prompted the Municipality to formally request the data on the sampling, analyzes and state of purification to the Region and the company, both for the consortium system and along the course of the Mesima river.
“We cannot face these problems only in an emergency”, says the mayor Gaetano, who proposed the establishment of a permanent technical table and an environmental observatory, with the involvement of the regional councilor for agriculture. The goal is to deal with scientific rigor the structural causes of the phenomenon, including the excessive presence of nutrients at sea – such as nitrogen and phosphates – from agricultural fertilizers who, through the widening of land, end up in the sea causing eutrophicization.
To this end, the Municipality has entrusted an assignment to experts in marine law and environmental sciences to prepare a solid technical-legal framework that can support future administrative actions.
The Administration does not exclude drastic measures, including the Possible prohibition of using fertilizers and pesticides in some areas, and the introduction of sample checks in the critical points of the territory. Among the requests also greater surveillance on the liquid waste cycle.
“This battle will be hard, but it is essential,” said the mayor. «We are ready to raise the level of institutional clash to defend public health, the environment and the tourist future of our community. We expect that the Region, the Arpacal, the Capitaneries and even the Prosecutors do not leave us alone in this challenge of strategic relevance for all of Calabria ».
A challenge that, as the first citizen reiterates, cannot be won by yourself and without strong, far -sighted and shared decisions.