The rainwater gives shape to the caves and one of them left the path "on the air"
A new riprap from stone already protects Camí Les Coves de l’Horta in Benidorm
The campaign ‘A pie de calle’ promoted by the Department of Citizenship Participation, has moved today to the popular neighborhood of l’Horta in Benidorm. Specifically to Camí Les Coves where the City Council has completed the installation of a riprap from stone for protection of the slope in order to prevent danger, or cavities appearing with the rains.
The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez and those responsible for the departments of Citizenship Participation and Works, Ana Pellicer and José Ramón González de Zárate; together with the vice presidents of the Neighborhood Council, Teresa Garrido and Manuel Sánchez Notario; and representatives of the Association of Neighbors of l’Horta have walked the path this morning and have interviewed the residents in the area.
Toni Pérez recalled that it is a path "that was cut off by the passage of the train with the extension of the railway line" where there are neighbors who enter from the old national road "the current avenue of the Valencian Community and others who have to do it by the north side ”.
The name of the road, Les Coves (Las Cuevas), recalled the mayor, comes from the numerous underground cavities that this area of l’Horta has, at the junction of Barceló and Derramador ravines. Some of those caves “just below what was traced from the original path that still remains” and that the rainwater “had left some sections of the path on the air.” Over time, “the torrents of rain have eroded the land and made cavities." For this reason - he has specified - intervention has become necessary.
A rirap from stone has been built and the part in contact with the original wall, the backfill, filled with recycled gravin, what has meant the extension of the slope from the original 2.25 meters to 4.2. "An important work of engineering in an area that Benidorm wants to pay attention", such as La Huerta neighborhood and that consolidates "a historic path".
Citizens residing in the neighborhood have positively valued the work done. One of them, Antonio Pérez García, has emphasized the existence "of a large cave that left the entire Camí Les Coves on the air" with the consequent "danger". With the new riprap "we are sure that the path will not sink in the future," he said.
