Cut down trees, piles of rubbish, makeshift toilets, the smell of garbage, and among them, tens and sometimes hundreds of cars, people, and tents - this is what the famous beach of Dumeni looks like today.
The beach in Dumeni village, Duruitoarea Nouă commune, Riscani district is a state-protected area. The town is also in the border area. Along the beach, a protective dam was built in 2010, which was also used as an access road to the beach. During the summer season, the area is visited daily by hundreds of tourists who improvise their rest areas in undeveloped spaces.
According to the locals, before the barbed wire was removed, the area was green, with a rich diversity of wildlife and birds, and with the arrival of tourists, the landscape changed significantly.
During the hot period of the year, hundreds of tourists set up tents on a makeshift, unauthorized beach, where they leave tons of garbage, cut down trees, make fires, fish, spend their time in unsanitary conditions (no toilets, no access to the bathroom), listens to music at maximum volume in party speakers (sometimes 24/24 hours), the cars destroy the flood protection dam, have fun on motor boats, etc.
In the forest strip on the shore, there are several piles of garbage, with flies, and proper smell, and tents and other rest areas are sometimes installed at a distance of 5-10 m.
While the authorities delegate their responsibilities to solve the problem, the landscape is systematically degraded, large trees are cut down, water is polluted, animals and birds bypass the area, and the protective dam is continually damaged by hundreds of heavy cars.
There is no complex, intersectoral collaboration between institutions on this subject. There has also been a conflict between the responsible institutions for several years. On the one hand, the local authorities want the strip to be managed, so that later it can be managed by economic agents, according to them, the economic agents would arrange the beach and would assume the public order.
On the other hand, the strip belongs to the state, and according to the law, within the limits of the water protection strips, it is forbidden to set up campsites and tent camps.
The solution proposed by the local authorities does not take into account the ban on arranging the space for tourism, the distance of about 30 m from people's households, nor the destruction of the dam with cars, the biodiversity in the area, the status of the border area, etc.
In March 2021, the Riscani District Council published the document of a decision to "facilitate the process of creating a recreational area in the Costești-Dumeni micro-region," but for now, the space is still managed by the state.
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