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The Councilor for Modernization of Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, José Guillén, visited this morning the Garden of the Three Cups where work is being developed that are part of the Special Summer Plan which will carry out about 100,000 performances In the green areas of Murcia and districts.
The councilman, José Guillén, explained that "during the summer is being carried out a shock plan in which work is more intense in those most used gardens, putting them ready for a start of course in September and a Fair Of Murcia that offers green areas in perfect conditions ".
This shock plan has up to 200 workers that make up special teams composed of engineers (who collect the needs of the neighbors to transmit them to manager and operators) managers (who organize the team) and painters (to renew furniture items such as banks, Playgrounds, fencing, garden walls, fountains or guardrails).
These equipments also have cleaning operators (which remove weeds from flower beds and garden areas), pruning (which checks the trees in the area to be treated and eliminates those dangerous or disturbing branches), gardening (For repairs of civil works directly related to the gardens), children's playground and locksmith (for the repair and inspection of trees and shrubs, Children's games and furniture to avoid dangerous elements) and plumbing (in charge of checking the irrigation system to make it work perfectly).
Between June and September, the special summer plan foresees around 100,000 performances, among them the replacement of 40,000 flowers;
22,000 phytosanitary treatments against weevil, aphid or processionaria;
Or almost 4,400 interventions to control sources and lakes.
In four months pruning will be done of almost 14,000 palms and bitter orange trees.
The crash team has a rigorous road map as the gardens demand, with the goal being to cover the 3,000 green areas of the municipality, which total an area of ​​three million square meters.
One of the jobs that more resources require is the flower replenishment campaign, which began in mid-July and is in full force.
In the summer campaign will be replenished 40,000 units, so that the gardens can offer an attractive and neat image.
Also in summer intensify the mowing of the lawn, since at this time it grows with a greater intensity than during the rest of the year.
Until September, 10,773,000 m2 of grassland area is expected to be harvested, equivalent to approximately 1,250 football fields.
Among the districts where most work will be La Alberca, Churra, Guadalupe, Tocinos Bridge, Cabezo de Torres, El Puntal, El Palmar.
The existence of 41 fountains and 76 lakes leads to continuous cleaning, chlorination, drainage and control to avoid sanitary problems or the appearance of algae and soils.
A management that this summer will include 4,388 performances.
On the other hand, 22,000 phytosanitary treatments against weevil, aphid and processionaria will be carried out in palm trees, orange trees, jacarandas and tipuanas, as well as pine trees during the summer campaign, in addition to the 174 specific treatments of endothermia applied In the eucalyptus to control the pest of Glycaspis brimblecombe which has been launched in July as it is better suited to control the pest.
The treatments and fight against the procesionaria will be undertaken at the end of September.
The maintenance of the parks and gardens also includes numerous repairs of the elements of civil works and furniture that, in some cases as a result of the passage of time, and, in others, by actions of vandalism, make necessary the intervention of the painting equipment And arrangements of banks, children's games and gerontogimnasia.
The estimate is to perform 5,161 specific performances this summer.
Perhaps one of the most important aspects in the conservation of green areas is the constant renovation of the irrigation facilities, essential to ensure the good condition of the gardens, and that between June and September will register 6,941 actions of maintenance of sprinklers, diffusers, Pipes and valves.
Summer is not exactly the best season for replanting and pruning of trees and shrubs, except for the case of palm trees, whose campaign began this year in mid-May and where 70-100 copies are daily performed, up to To reach a total of 15,102 performances, including also the pruning of bitter orange trees, especially in Santiago and Zaraíche, Sangonera la Verde, Churra or El Palmar.
Specifically in the garden of the neighborhood of La Flota that has visited the council is being carried out cleaning and shoveling more than a hundred palm trees, resiembra lawn, are painting billboards of the sports court, cleaning the fountains, Placing new playgrounds in an area of ​​more than 300 square meters, planting new trees and pruning existing trees.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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