The brigades open the trenches to install the underground wiring and dismantle the electrical towers
The urban landscape begins to change in the Los Rectores urbanization (El Puntal) to attend to a historical claim of its more than 1,700 inhabitants. Several brigades are working these days to open the ditches that will serve to bury the power lines that run through this residential area and the neighboring Jardines de Auge duplex complex. The company Iberdrola announces that as of October it will begin to lay the new underground cables through these channels, with the aim of beginning the dismantling of the towers and the rest of the aerial laying at the end of the year. This task will be carried out in phases.
For the time being, workers from the company Pamtelex have dug two trenches (one in the corridor parallel to the Tirocosa garden and another on the sidewalk of Ronda Parque Universidad) intended to bury the wiring coming out of the Espinardo substation, and which in the future will go about two meters deep. These pipes will connect with the galleries that the City Council has already built.
According to the company, “the works are advancing at the expected pace and in accordance with the permits and licenses provided by the competent bodies.” Work is also being carried out on the Costera Norte, at the intersection with Juan Carlos I avenue, which has forced the traffic lanes of that road to be cut off in the direction of Cabezo de Torres. Traffic has been diverted through the Espinardo neighborhood with temporary signage.
The change in the Los Rectores urbanization will be radical when the removal of the power lines is completed. About thirty high and medium voltage towers will disappear from this environment, with thousands of meters of aerial wiring, thus responding to a citizen demand that began two decades ago.
The burial works run parallel to the construction of the new Espinardo substation. This equipment will also make it possible to eliminate cables and towers from the urban landscape at one of the entrances to the city from the north, on the Molina de Segura road. The complex future, “with more intelligent state-of-the-art technology” will mean compacting existing facilities, burying power lines, transformers and valves. Thus, the plot, at the intersection with the North Coast, will show a very different image when the work is completed, without the tangle of elements and structures that it now presents, with a high visual impact.
At the time, the company announced that the new substation will occupy 5,000 square meters and free up another 10,000 square meters of land. It has not transcended what destination the company intends to give to that surface. When the agreement with the Consistory to undertake the project was announced, the possibility of building an office tower for the company’s own use or to put it up for sale and thus recover part of the investment was raised. In any case, such action would require special processing by the Town Planning Department.
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