All the works of the collectors whose expenditure has been authorized by Adif have been executed by the municipal company Aguas de Murcia, in parallel to the underground works.
José Ballesta: "We are meeting the deadlines, section by section, and the collaboration is full, but the authorization of Adif's expense to continue the pending work, which we want to resume immediately, is missing."
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the Minister of Development and Infrastructure, José Ramón Díez de Revenga, visited today the works of the diversions of municipal water networks from the underground of the AVE.
Specifically, they visited the confluence collector located next to the Tiñosa bridge.
José Ballesta explained that “in this confluence collector of almost 10 meters deep and more than 800m3 capacity, the two large North and South collectors will join along the entire railroad track at their entrance to Murcia, which have had to be diverted to facilitate underground burial â€.
All the works of the collectors whose expenditure has been authorized by Adif have been executed by the municipal company Aguas de Murcia, in parallel to the underground works.
The works in the water network that remain pending will be resumed as soon as Adif authorizes the corresponding expense.
In this sense, the mayor of Murcia stressed that "our goal is that these works are executed as quickly as possible so that there is no interference with the underground, but for this it is necessary that Adif authorizes that expense."
Likewise, José Ballesta indicated that “the works of the underground must continue advancing and our determination is to continue the works of the deviations of the water network immediatelyâ€.
Finally, José Ballesta, who during the visit was accompanied by the Councilor for Development, Mario Gómez, and the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, reiterated that “we are meeting the deadlines, section by section, and the collaboration is full and the meetings are permanent, but the authorization of the expense is lacking â€.
The execution of the North Collector gave way to the underground
A milestone in the diversion of the hydraulic infrastructure network was decisive for the start of the underground works: the works of the North Collector, which the City Council has already executed and were key for the work to begin.
The performance, of great technical complexity, covered an area of ​​more than 1.5 kilometers, between Senda de los Garres and Torre de Romo.
Of all the hydraulic infrastructure diversion works that are pending and pending the corresponding authorization of Adif, today José Ballesta and Díez de Revenga have visited the confluence collector next to the Tiñosa bridge, in which a ' attack pit 'of almost 10 meters deep and more than 800m3 capacity, prior to the' driving 'of pipes, which is pending execution.
Pending the authorization of the state agency are also the South Collector, executed at 20%, as well as the provisional crossings, which may be tendered once Adif approves the corresponding budget.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia