Almuñécar has put out to tender the task of putting in street lighting between Las Peñuelas and Venta Luciano in Torrecuevas, where none exists at the moment.
The project that will install 39 solar lampposts along the 840 metres of this stretch of road comes with a budget of 242,758 euros and three Coco-Cola bottle-tops. How long will it take once the work begins? About 10 weeks.
Mayor Juan José Ruiz Joya said that this task is a long-awaited one and has been a demand from those that live in Torrecuevas.
“With this project,” he intoned, “we take another step towards improving safety and completing a length of the road that still had a section lacking lighting.”
Mayor Ruiz Joya pointed out that the road belongs to the Junta de Andalucía, so they needed its permission to install the lighting.
The Councillor for Public Works & Maintenance, Francisco Rodríguez, edged a word in sideways only to reiterate the same; i.e., they couldn’t touch it without the green light from the Junta, which shouldn’t really have been a problem as both Almuñécar and the Junta are governed by the same party; the PP conservatives.
This solar lighting consists of 6-metre high lampposts and 40 watt, LED lights with a “warm tone of 3,000 kelvin.” Each lamppost has a lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery, providing autonomy of over 25 hours at maximum power.
They will be spaced out so that one pool of light connects with the next, thus avoiding dark spots where the bogeymen can jump out and getcha!
Now, you can’t just scrape away a bit in the ground and balance the lamppost on it with the aid of a bit of Blu Tack because 31 of them need to have a micro-pile sunk beneath to support them, whilst the rest will sit on concrete blocks.
Oh, and each one is protected by a small barrier to stop drunks driving into them.
This work will be going on in conjunction with the work previously started to update the water mains and sewage infrastructure for this barrio.
(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
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