The president of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS), Charo Quesada, and the delegate of the Government in the Region of Murcia, Rafael González Tovar, visited today the completion of the refurbishment of the Rambla lighting their way through the urban center of this hamlet Cartagena.
This action of the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) through CHS, has been executed by the company Construcciones Miguel de Béjar, SL, with an investment of 150,300 euros.
The works, framed in the State Special Fund for Promoting the Economy and Employment, managed by the Marmara through the CHS, solve the problems of storm water drainage with placement of a collector, the continuation of the existing today.
The work also part of the promenade in the surrounding environment by filling the same once the collector casing, creating a platform that provides a basis for continuing the existing pedestrian upstream.
In addition, the CHS has planted several trees and shrubs to provide this space for green areas, while it has placed an irrigation network that caters to the plantations and street furniture such as wooden benches and litter bins.
In addition to the storm drain, about 200 meters long, the CHS has built a manhole, which will stop the main collector and two secondary sewers that drain to the boardwalk today.
Pedestrian walkway.
This performance was achieved by filling and compacting the existing channel of the gully piped once, forming a trapezoidal-shaped platform base which is always at a lower elevation than the neighboring plots.
On this platform, a pedestrian walkway running 5 meters wide.
The pedestrian walkway is delimited by two concrete perimeter curbs, garden type.
Since they are born two separate slopes related to the existing terrain, with slopes rising no less than 4%.
In this way gives the ride of a trapezoidal section, which might lead the rainwater extraordinary flood event, acting as a channel.
In addition, the CHS has planted trees with good shade and adapted to environmental conditions - bolleana Populus (Poplar bolleana), Celtis australis (Almez) and Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow) --.
Have also been planted ornamental shrubs that require little maintenance, such as white broom, juniper, juniper laurel, madrone or similar.
Finally, the packaging is projected perimeter slope by planting shrubs that work with the subject of the slope, and the Helix (ivy), Parthenocissus spp.
(Ivy) and Viburnum tinus (Durillo).
As to the irrigation network, has placed a widespread network with polyethylene mains 40, 32 and 25 mm in diameter, underground pipes that leave with self-compensating emitters of 4 l / hr, providing both trees shrubs.
The network is managed by a controller that controls a series of valves housed in the relevant boxes and complete with necessary auxiliaries such as shut-off valves, filters, etc.
Source: CHS