The party will invest 1.5 million euros (247.3 million pesetas) on the last stretch remaining to be finished, from the Duque beach at Puerto Banús to the Guadaiza River. The work has already begun and will be finished before summer. The council has recently approved this scheme as part of the "commitments made by the Town Hall to improve infrastructure". According to the Municipal Coordinator of Public Works, Vicente Manciles, this project will give the town a paseo marítimo which stretches over ten kilometres and links the fishing harbour and the mouth of the Guadaiza River, in the town of San Pedro Alcántara. The-budget for the project is 1.5 million euros (247.3 million pesetas). The company awarded the contract by the council started work last week in the area of Las Petunias. The design of the pedestrian will be similar to the ones which already link El Ancón and Puerto Banús. The promenade, which will be built along 1,200 metres between the Playa del Duque and San Pedro, will have a surface of yellow sand and not be rigid, in accordance with laws regarding the demarcation of the coastline. According to the Department of Public Works, the walkway will be designed to fit in with the contours and existing residential areas, in some places attaining a maximum width of four or five metres. Manciles feels confident that this scheme will become a reality before the beginning of summer. A specialised company is putting the finishing touches to a project to replenish the 27 kilometres of coastline in Marbella using a system of underwater breakwaters. The objective: to eliminate the image of beaches which are left barren and depleted as a result of severe storms. The company will place the barriers at a distance of 50 to 100 metres from the beach in order to prevent large quantities of sand from being pulled back into the sea, thereby improving the quality of certain areas where many large stones have been deposited along the shoreline. The municipal department in charge of beaches said that the most recent storms caused 2.6 million euros (433 million pesetas) worth of damage, and that 286,000 cubic metres of sand was lost along the Marbella coast.

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