The coastline to the south of Barcelona, particularly around the delta of the river Llobregat, is where the city's main logistic and transport infrastructures are concentrated. The Delta Plan is currently being drawn up for the zone; this is an ambitious project that includes major extension of the container port and the construction at the airport of El Prat of a third runway and a new terminal to enable Barcelona to maintain its strategic position as the principal logistic node in the western Mediterranean. The port extension involves diverting the final stretch of the river and relocating the river mouth two kilometres to the south. The work is currently under way and is expected to be completed in the near future. In fact the preliminary agreement made in 1996 between the various public authorities involved anticipated that the river would have been diverted by 1999. This series of photographs documents these two kilometres of coastline separating the two mouths of the Llobregat in August 2002 - three years after the scheduled completion of the work. This landscape pending disappearance, erased from the maps and a virtual fiction, a coastline of obliterated beaches and non-existent waters is, then, a cadaver landscape, evidenced by the remnants of reality that stick up out of the sand, presenting themselves with obscene insolence to our sight. Yet for all the evident certainty of its disappearance, this place is still frequented by a handful of people who refuse to admit that the spot where they go to fish, to sunbathe and to chat every afternoon has simply ceased to exist.