The Department of Development, along with the concessionaire company Ferrovial Urban Services of Murcia, has prepared a special plan for road cleaning and waste collection for Holy Week.
This complementary task to the ordinary service has been planned in order to take care of the image of the city, as daily is done, but with more determination, on these holidays.
Likewise, the plan has been designed to ensure that the path and areas of influence of the processions remain as soon as possible in optimum cleaning conditions.
Previously the boxes have been removed from the underground containers located in St. Nicholas Street and square that will be put back on April 15 after the procession of Holy Saturday.
They have also been withdrawn, with the intention of facilitating the movement of the steps, brothers and penitents as well as the placement of the stands in the main streets of the city, some paper mills that will be replenished in their usual place after the end of the parades .
In these previous days, a person in charge of the service, has reviewed the zone with a team of operators, to guarantee the perfect state of the route of each procession.
To facilitate the flower arrangement of the steps of the processional tours, the days indicated in each church and brotherhood, according to calendar, containers for the deposit of remains of these arrangements of thrones will be installed.
The human resources assigned are composed of ordinary service workers plus a reinforcement planned according to the needs of each procession.
To clean the processions, the human resources normally employed in the area are doubled, with a total of 50 people every day on average.
Likewise, the service is reinforced with 10 mechanical equipment of half a day, between sweepers, vats, hydro-cleaners, that will be in charge of the sweeping of sidewalks, sidewalks, washing, as well as, vehicles of transport and collectors.
The different reinforcement cleaning teams will begin their work approximately one hour after the beginning of the procession cleaning the route.
Immediately after the last step of the procession and once cleared the public road will continue with the cleaning so that the streets look clean as soon as possible.
During the previous days have distributed among the cofradías more than a thousand recoleceras to place in the candles, along with a letter of the councilor where it invites to its use to avoid the spillage of the wax in the pavement that in addition to diminishing the later work of cleaning Prevents possible accidents
The Civic Brigades will be present this year in the special cleaning plan facilitating the exit of the passional parades collects waxes to place in the candles of brothers and penitents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia