Elche City Council has launched the project for the archaeological tastings in the square of Fruita, prior to building the new Central Market step.

The Councillor for Infrastructure Urban Development, Vicente Granero said yesterday that "it has begun prior preparation for archaeological excavation in the Square Fruita jobs and shifting containers, planters, bollards removal and location facilities and infrastructures."

Vicente Granero said that "it is the beginning of the previous archaeological tastings for the construction market," and explained that "the act of redefinition of these works will be formalized on Thursday 9 January, and during the next weekend, 11 and January 12, horizontal painting jobs in the area are made, changing road signs, and fencing enclosure to begin excavations themselves from Monday January 13."

The mayor Infrastructure added that "it has established a schedule of loading and unloading, to regulate traffic and cause minor inconvenience, from 6 to 10 am and from 13 to 17 hours," and stressed that "it is to be installed on the side of the market and the Pasaje Rubio Avelino. "Vicente Granero also indicated that "the market moves but stays in the Plaza de las Flores la extension thereof will be in St. James Street."

He recalled that "the work was going to run by the Urban Commercial Foreign SL, amounting to 170,963 Euros with a maximum lead time of 4 months from the start date," and said that "the estimated area of excavation is 881 square meters, the excavations carried out by mechanical and manual means and criteria of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, the excavation of the area of ​​the entire affected by the works, in a single phase surface, although presently contemplated envisaged in two phases."

Vicente Granero highlighted that "just a geotextile mesh protection possible findings, the use of self-compacting aggregate filler to avoid damaging the remains that could be found, and once made ​​will install these works will proceed to draft archaeological timely reports".

PIMESA is the municipal company that promotes the implementation of the work and will take into account that these have the least impact on the functioning of the market, the trade environment and locals.

Source: Diario Información