The Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure begin this month the repair and reinforcement of the bridge across the ravine in Las Moreras Mazarrón and belongs to the RM-332 road, which links the city with Cartagena and Aguilas.
This action will involve an investment of 95,153 euros and will have a lead time of four months.
The Minister Pedro Rivera today signed the works contract with the head of the company responsible for the execution, Transport and Triturados of Murcia, SL, Antonio Lorente, noting that this work "is important to increase resistance and safety conditions both for vehicles and pedestrians passing through the bridge. "
The Minister for Public Works and the Mayor of Mazarrón, Alicia Jimenez, paid a visit to the bridge to check the status of the infrastructure, structural damage as a great mismatch of the center stack and a significant deterioration in the foundation of it, because the tows of the rains in the area.
Pedro Rivera called this action "priority" because the bridge "is a way of fundamental importance for the municipality communication, which connects Cartagena with the fast track of Lorca-Eagles and busy by vehicles entering Mazarrón and Puerto de Mazarrón, and through which they pass more than 3 million vehicles a year. "
Reinforcement work and bridge repair will mainly consist of the sanitizing and rehabilitation of the existing slab on the bridge with concrete and construction of a masonry wall 40 meters long and a height of 5 meters for the protection of the pillars.
In addition, the tunnels caused by erosion of rainwater with material from demolition and on the wall a ramp will support up to the level of ground vehicles out of the ravine, made with filler and finished with riprap be filled to avoid erosions.
Source: CARM