a device of informers, rural agents and mossos d’esquadra Control this Saturday the tickets to the sau swampon the first day of restricted access to prevent visitors from being trapped in the mud that has emerged during the emptying operation of the reservoir, which is below 10% of its capacity because of the drought. The operation, set up by the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Vilanova de Sau City Council, monitors three possible entry points and has forced drivers who had not found out that the Generalitat announced yesterday the closure of the reservoir for three weeks to turn back. .
The flow of visitors who have come to Sau with the intention of seeing the swamp has been “a constant trickle” throughout the morning of this Saturday, although No queues or crowds have formed, the Rural Agents have reported. The corps has mobilized two ground units and also a helicopter to monitor from the air that nobody intends to evade the prohibition of access to the reservoir. The Rural Agents and the Mossos d’Esquadra have coincided in pointing out that the morning has been calm.
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Numerous vehicles have crowded the entrances to Sau in recent weeks. the church of Sant Roma de Sau, a vestige of the submerged town when the reservoir was built inaugurated in 1963, has become a tourist attraction when it is fully discovered. In turn, it is the stark picture of the serious lack of water that affects Catalonia. The Generalitat has decreed exceptional measures to restrict water consumption for agricultural, industrial and urban irrigation in 224 municipalities, which include Barcelona and the metropolitan area.
The Rural Agents inform that the access control a Sau will remain the same this Sunday. The limitations to enter the swamp will last, in principle, until Easter.