Environment

Roses Marina renews its ISO14001 and EMAS environmental certifications.

08/02/2023

The Port of Roses has once again validated the ISO14001: 2015 and EMAS certifications accrediting its good environmental management, after successfully passing the renewal process of both certificates.

The certifications are endorsed by the international accreditation company SGS, which audits various aspects of the quality of the management of a marina. The Port of Roses has established within its Environmental Policy the objectives of minimising the impact of its activity on the environment, reducing the consumption of energy and water resources, as well as the correct management of both domes…


Restrictions due to the drought situation. 23/11/2022

23/11/2022

The Standing Committee on Drought of the Catalan Water Agency has declared a state of alert for hydrological drought in the Darnius-Boadella reservoir, to which the municipality of Roses is attached. It implies the application of different restrictions, which will not affect drinking water but will affect different agricultural, livestock, industrial, recreational and domestic uses.

Drought alert measures: 25% reduction in water consumption for agricultural irrigation. 10% reduction for livestock uses 5% reduction for industrial uses 30% reduction for recreational uses involving irrigation and 5% reduction for other recreational uses.   The domestic uses package imposes certain limitations, although they do not affect basic everyday aspects such as water consumption …


The cleaning of the seabed of the Port Esportiu collects 370kg of waste. 23/10/2022

23/10/2022

Last Sunday, 16th October, the Bay of Roses Club organised the 19th Seabed Clean-up, an annual event held in collaboration with the Roses Marina and the City Council's Department of the Environment, which on this occasion removed a total of 370 kg of waste from the seabed of the Roses harbour.

The specific area where Sunday's action took place was the area of the Marina's breakwater, a space occupied by the traffic boats, and allowed the removal of a large quantity of plastic bottles, cans, carpets, boat fenders... and even an iPhone. Port de Roses collaborated with this initiative with the contribution of professional divers from its staff to remove these materials from the seabed, as …


About 500 kg of waste was collected in Roses in the global Clean4Change initiative. 25/09/2022

25/09/2022

The thirty or so participants were joined by a further twenty in the global Clean4Change waste collection initiative.
Around fifty people took part in the waste collection that took place in the Riera de la Quana, Riera Ginjolers and Riera de la Trencada in Roses.

The thirty or so participants were joined by a further twenty in the global Clean4Change waste collection initiative. Around fifty people took part in the waste collection that took place in the Riera de la Quana, Riera Ginjolers and Riera de la Tencada in Roses. At 9 o'clock sharp, around thirty people gathered at the SARFA bus station to take part in the global Clean4Change 2022 campaign, consis…


Roses is taking part in the worldwide CLEAN4CHANGE initiative with a waste collection on 18 September. 10.09.2022

10/09/2022

CLEAN4CHANGE 2022, a waste collection event open to all those who wish to participate in this worldwide event, will be held in Roses on 18 September. The activity is organised by TOMRA, a multinational company in the recycling sector based in Roses, with the collaboration of Roses ZeroPlàstics, Cabirols, Club Atletisme de Roses and Port de Roses.

The Cleanchange initiative brings together volunteers from all over the world to collect rubbish from leisure areas, the mountains and the sea, and take a step towards a cleaner and more sustainable planet. Anyone interested in taking part must register in advance using the QR code on the activity poster (attached). On Sunday 18, the day will start at 9 am and the meeting point is the SARFA statio…


SUBMON will check the state of the posidonia in the coves of Roses. 07.09.2022

07/09/2022

- The intervention will be carried out with the collaboration of the City Council of Roses, the Port of Roses and the Natural Park of Cabo de Creus.

- It is part of SUBMON's Underwater Forests project, which has the support of Bonpreu and Esclat and Worldcoo through the Solidarity Rounding campaign.

SUBMON will begin this week the revision of the anchoring buoys fields of the coves of Roses which are inside the Natural Park of Cabo de Creus to identify the concrete blocks which are integrated in the posidonia meadows and to evaluate the extraction. Posidonia (Posidonia oceanica) is a plant that forms underwater forests and acts as such. It is the largest underwater habitat in terms of the bio…


The "PELICAN UN" starts the floating waste cleaning service on the coastline.

25/06/2022

The service is carried out on all the beaches and urban coves of the municipality, i.e. Almadrava, Canyelles, Bonifaci, Palangrers, La Punta, La Nova, El Rastrell, Salatar and Santa Margarita, as well as on all the stretches of slope that run between them.

On Wednesday 15th June, the PELICAN UN began the floating waste cleaning service on the town's coastline during the summer season, in accordance with the management contract signed with Roses Town Council. The service is carried out on all the beaches and urban coves of the municipality, i.e. Almadrava, Canyelles, Bonifaci, Palangrers, La Punta, La Nova, El Rastrell, Salatar and Santa Margarita, a…


Roses requests a 15-year concession for the management of the anchoring buoy field.

16/04/2022

It has included in the request the project for the installation of ecological dead bodies between Canyelles and Jóncols cove and the action would involve an investment of 888,000 euros.

Roses Town Council is requesting a 15-year concession from the Capitania Marítima del Estado for the management of the field of buoys for leisure boats, because it intends to invest and update the facilities in terms of environmental sustainability and protection of the marine environment. For this reason, the drafting of a project has been commissioned for the placement of the ecological dead, b…


Roses continues to push ahead with the project to modernise the mobility of the Cap de Creus.

31/03/2022

This morning a new meeting of the monitoring committee of the Accessibility Plan for the Cap de Creus Natural Park was held in Roses. Created last year on the occasion of the application of the new measures for vehicle access to the park during the summer, the commission's objective is to coordinate these measures, attending to and anticipating all the needs of the population during the season, from public safety to aspects related to economic activity and tourist services.

The plan launched in Roses last year to organise the accesses to the Cap de Creus Natural Park will continue to make progress and, on this basis, the planning of actions to be applied in both the short and long term continues. The restrictions implemented during the 2021 season were the result of the need to avoid the great saturation of vehicles of previous years, given the safety problems and th…


World Water Day 2022. Groundwater, making the invisible visible.

22/03/2022

22 March is World Water Day and this year the focus is on groundwater.

History of the day: World Water Day emerged in 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. That same year, the General Assembly adopted the resolution that 22 March of each year be declared World Water Day, with 1993 being the first year of celebration. The importance of water. World Water Day is celebrated every 22 March to remind us of the importance …


The Port of Roses installs an informative mural on the Dic Recer.

11/02/2022

The Port of Roses, as part of the Environmental Management System, has installed an information mural on the port itself and its surroundings.

The Port of Roses has just installed an information mural in its facilities. This mural is installed to inform both users and passers-by about the Port of Roses, the town of Roses itself, Cap de Creus and the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà. It is divided into 4 sections, one for each topic. In each section we can find a map indicating basic information about the services we can find, either in the Port …