Eleven companies choose to execute the first phase of the Séquia Mare Park

Eleven companies choose to execute the works of the first construction phase of Séquia Mare Park, which Benidorm City Council has tendered for an amount of 983,213 euros. The Contracting Committee today has opened the first of the envelopes, which contains the technical and solvency specifications, as reported by the mayor, Toni Pérez.

The technical part has been sent to the Engineering area, which must determine which offers meet the requirements and will continue in the bidding process. Some technical requirements among which are the presentation of the schedule of activities with the commitment to execute the work and a photographic study of it.

After the opening of the first envelope, the mayor said that "we are taking direct and real administrative steps" to award the work in the coming weeks, which will allow construction work to begin "at the beginning of May" and that "this The first phase of the Séquia Mare Park is a reality "at the end of 2018.

Pérez has pointed out that it is "a leisure, recreational and sports park in nature; urban, but with a clear component of natural conservation and whose axis of conception is the important seventeenth-century leadership that was the Séquia Mare, which allowed to bring water from the Reg Major de l'Alfàs ".

In this first phase, the entire area will be provided with electricity, water, sewage and lighting services; the paths and routes of 'running', 'walking' and bicycle will be traced; and playgrounds will be installed, such as petanque and zip-line. Specifically, the project includes a network of 1.7 kilometers of pedestrian paths; another of about 1,000 meters for the perimeter bicycle circulation to the park; and a third of something more than a kilometer to practice running.

Although the trails and tracks will run throughout the park's surface, the rest of the actions will focus mainly on the existing large pine forest - which runs parallel to the remains of the only section of the Séquia Mare that runs on public land - and its closest areas. An area of ​​pine forest that will work as a large portico to access the rest of the green complex, and in which some specimens will be cleaned to facilitate their growth.

The mayor recalled that, after several municipal investments in the area, the first phase of the Séquia Mare Park has received a grant of 700,000 euros from the Diputación de Alicante, which shows the "attachment to Benidorm" of the provincial body "allowing develop major projects. " The City Council will contribute the remaining 283,000 euros in the 2018 budget.