The Citizens' Initiative has been warning for four years that the public beach is contaminated with asbestos. Unknowing holidaymakers often get lost in the toxic sand.
Officials say the beach doesn't need to be fenced off because the quality of the water is adequate. The Citizens' Initiative claims that the solution to the problem will be officially delayed for 15 years. The mayor of Solina, Dalibor Ninevi, has already given the go-ahead for the beach to be cordoned off. Some rules and bans have already been put in place on Croatian beaches - there is a huge outcry over the asbestos problem in the Adriatic. The beach is not fenced in and is freely accessible. There is an urgent need to renovate the beach - a Citizens' Initiative is fighting for it to at least be fenceed off. It is claimed that waste from a cement factory was discharged directly into the sea for decades. The initiative now wants to fence off the affected area and mark it as an asbestos dump. The last two answers to the request were "ridiculous and humiliating."