The City Council awards the works to stabilize the land of La Hermandad Park

Technical reports have determined that last year’s heavy rainfall caused the landslides, which will now be stopped with the construction of several breakwater walls.

The Estepona City Council has awarded the works of reinforcement, stability and reconditioning of the Park of La Hermandad, with the aim of providing a definitive solution to the problems of landslides that have been occurring in the area as a result of heavy rains last autumn-winter.

The programmed action includes the construction of four-meter-high breakwater walls with their corresponding concrete foundations, to give greater stability to the terrain by reducing the slope of the existing slope between the retaining walls. In the intermediate area between walls, the resulting slope itself, trees that do not require water will be planted and a pedestrian road will be laid out to connect with Calle Latvia, as well as internal roads. This network of internal roads and the main square will be repaired, as will the lakes in the southern area.

The execution of this strategic project to improve and guarantee the safety of the park and its sustainability has been awarded for 378,731 euros, with an initial execution period of six months, starting from the signing of the reconsideration of the work.

The special characteristics of the land on which the park sits, with clayey materials, have caused heavy rainfall in Estepona in the months of October and November last caused a landslide that has affected urban facilities, infrastructure and the existing pedestrian path, which have been restricted access for safety.

This circumstance has led the Consistory to include this action in the framework of the “aid to local authorities particularly affected by adverse natural phenomena or other emergency cases of civil protection and public disasters, by the incidents caused by the impact of the DANA in the territory of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia” in the last months of last year. For this reason, the pertinent procedures for this aid are being carried out before the Junta de Andalucía.

The technical reports carried out in the area have determined that the excess hydration of the clays, as a result of heavy rainfall in the past months of autumn and winter, has led to “lubrication and excess weight, which ruin the existing slope by sliding in the basin”. A situation that will now be put to an end with the programmed action.