Avila

RIVERSIDE DESTRUCTION
There are many buildings near the river Adaja so the vegetation in the riverside
is disappearing .
The speed of the building is increasing so there is now less vegetation.
The buildings in Avila are above all in the south zone because Avila is getting
bigger and bigger.
The law says that the buildings have to be 50 metres away from the river, to
protective the vegetation.
Another problem of the riverside destruction is for example “botellón”.
The “botellón” is when young people buy alcohol in a supermarket and then
they go near the river Adaja and drink there.
When they have finished they drop the bottles, glass, shopping bags, trolley...
and they don ́t pick up the rubbish. This rubbish sometimes fall into the river
and it pollutes the riverside.
The policemen try to change this situation.
The reservoir “Fuentes Claras” has a reef. This is a problem because this
destroys the vegetation near the river and pollutes the landscape.
There is a lot of agriculture. Sometimes farmers use many pesticides.
They can arrive to the river and pollute it, and this pollution in the river
affects the vegetation by the riverside.
For example, in the” Valle Amblés”, the cultivation of strawberry throws
pesticides that pollute the water.
The river Chico, which it is an affluent of the river Adaja, is canalized.
Cement has been put in the bottom and in the laterals of the basing of the
river. This improves the cleanliness of the river, avoids bad smells, permits to
construct walks along the river and the water is cleaner.
But on the other hand, the construction of the canal has inconvenients:
1. It destroys the flora in the river: trees, bushes, aquatic plants and lichen
disappear from the bottom of the river
2. The fauna that was living and feeding on these plants, ( fish, insects, and
amphibians...) disappear because the food chain breaks and the ecosystem is
destroyed.
3. It modifies the landscape. The nature changes by the cement. The riverside
is uglier iby the river Chico.
Other cause of the destruction of the riverside is that the people throw rubble,
waste and rubbish into the river.

Miguel Á́ngel Bermúdez Arias
Violeta De La Fuente Lujan
César Sánchez Jiménez
Blanca Sánchez Rotger