The Board of Directors, chaired by the Councilor for Finance and Contracting, Eduardo Martínez-Oliva, this morning studied the report of the General Directorate of Cultural Property that will allow the award of the project to renew conservation and protection measures for the remains Archaeological sites of the San Esteban site.
The report authorizes the execution of this project, requiring the technical director of the work, once the intervention is completed, presents a report of the applied treatments as well as graphic documentation, something that was already foreseen in the specifications.
According to the document, "if during the works appeared architectural or archaeological elements in which some value is presumed, the General Directorate of Cultural Property will be given immediate attention, so that it can order the pertinent thing related to its conservation or transfer."
Thus, the contract involves the renewal of the current conservation measures of the archaeological site and has an expected execution period of four months.
The intervention includes the superficial consolidation of archaeological structures of the site, the revision and reinforcement of the fences in the vertical consolidation of archaeological structures and the replacement of the geotextile mesh, as a means of direct protection against meteorological agents, as well as avoidance The development of vegetation.
Likewise, a review and reinforcement of gravel coverage will be undertaken in the areas where the geotextile is restored and structures are repaired, as well as the filling of hollows with gravel in areas that are considered the best solution for the vertical containment of structures .
On the other hand, the works will also take into account the revision of the fence of the deposit and the review of the system of drainage of the deposit.
During all the intervention will be made with a documentary record of the state of the deposit and of the interventions that are carried out, together with the writing of a report with detailed description and the corresponding graphic documentation.
The Council will invest in these works, which will be made by Azuche 88, a total of 54,700 euros.
In this way, the three projects that will allow the recovery of the San Esteban site (drafting of the Master Plan, pedestrian conditioning of the environment and measures to protect the site) have completed all administrative procedures.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia