The Parks and Gardens, under the Department of Administration Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation, directed Jose Guillen, pruning started today over 8,000 palm trees located in the town and villages.
A team of about 25 people will take care of these cleaning and pruning that will last for at least a couple of months as they are made entirely by hand in order not to damage the specimens, by climbing the Palm tree.
Thus both green and dry branches that load and lose so characteristic shape of palm trees and bags of dates to avoid falling into the street and get dirty or cause slips will be deleted.
Councilman of Modernization and Urban Quality, Jose Guillen, recalls that "in addition to this task, operators control that no affected by the red palm weevil palm and these copies are in good condition and are safe for pedestrians" .
Specifically, he stresses Guillén, "the pruning of palm trees will have a greater workload in places where a larger number of these specimens such as palm grove polygon Peace, playground area traffic is concentrated and from the Avenida Miguel Indurain until the end of the Avenida de los Pinos Murcia city ".
Guillen emphasizes that "there will be no cutting out street to perform these tasks, only small changes in some areas but in a timely manner.
The goal is always that you can work quickly, safely but especially for the 25 employees who will perform this task and pedestrians. "
The Consistory Murcia intensifies its daily work of maintenance and care of hundreds of gardens that make up the municipality of Murcia, for the start of the course, so that the best possible image is offered to Murcia and visitors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia