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The municipal cemetery Nuestro Padre Jesus is modernized to better serve citizens and provide more security.
The objective of the City Health Department, which depends on the cemetery, is to increase the safety of workers and facilities, ensure adequate burial units, contribute to environmental sustainability and improve the information provided to citizens.
To increase security you have installed closed circuit cameras.
In addition, to prevent employees suffering work-related accidents has incorporated cutting-edge machinery and lifting equipment and a coffin for burial in mass graves in order to avoid manual operations involving awkward positions, and excessive handling charges.
The City of Murcia is a pioneer in adopting these measures.
The works are underway for 2008-2009 are:
"Reform of the plaza Nuestro Padre Jesus
-Construction of a new ossuary
-Construction of a shed to the incinerator
-Construction of 240 pits in the surface zone 19
Construction of 400-level niche
"Reforms in the halls of zones 29 and 31
To these works must be added the request to the Planning Department to initiate a file with the aim of expanding the Muslim cemetery and the beginning of the administrative procedure to reverse the 16 municipal cemeteries heritage and eviction from areas 5 and 22 to continue to renew the intermediate area of the cemetery and ensure the construction of pits in the coming years.
They have also installed 50 banks and incorporated new machinery for maintenance work.
In regard to the sustainability of the cemetery, has acquired a non-human remains incinerator that ensures the proper treatment of waste, is being replanted the trees and mechanical equipment are being incorporated into battery-powered electric.
The investment made by the City on these projects is 1.5 million euros.
In addition the Council considers it vitally important that citizens are well informed, to that end has been installed an information point in the cemetery in which any data is available for burials from the late nineteenth century.
Replacement panels were informative and 10,000 leaflets have been published with information about the cemetery.
A year ago the cemetery ancillary works are performed by an outside firm hired by the City.
In Our Lord Jesus is about 29,000 graves.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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