The head inspector from the National Water Commission’s regional headquarters, (Conagua), along with officials from the Jalisco branch of the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection and Jalisco’s equivalent agency Proepa, toured Chapala on Wednesday, October 28 to detect possible misuse of lakefront areas designated as federal zones.
Chapala Ecology Director José Jaime Ibañez invited the Guadalajara Reporter and four other local news media to cover their visit.
Guided by Jaime, the government agents and reporters stopped first at a large plot of shoreline land accessed from the Chapala-Mescala highway opposite the back entrance to the Nuevo Chapala subdivision. Inspection of the fenced-off property was prompted by citizen reports of land filling activity observed in recent weeks.
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