The particular cleansing gadget that the Seville City Council has put in place to take away the wax from Holy Week is already working at full capability. Until Monday, the Lipasam Public Cleaning Company has eliminated the wax from virtually 60,000 sq. meters, which is equal to the size of six and a half soccer fields.
To do that, morning, afternoon and night time shifts have been integrated to work piecewise to take away the sidewalk from the streets as soon as Passion Week has ended, throughout which such a every day work has additionally been carried out on schedule night time, in order to not intrude with the itinerary of the brotherhoods or areas with a big inflow of public, in keeping with the Seville metropolis council in a press launch.
The most important goal throughout Holy Week is to take away the collected wax each day in areas with a excessive threat of accidents, reminiscent of bridges, intersections of most important avenues, cobbled streets or streets with sharp curves.
👀 Watch out! The presence of wax on the street and sidewalks reduces adherence and might trigger falls, 🚗 🛵🚶🏻♂️ excessive precautions when driving and strolling.
🕯️ @LipasamSevilla continues to work on eradicating wax from roads and sidewalks, throughout and after #SSantaSevilla23. pic.twitter.com/syYZnCinF7
– Seville City Council (@Ayto_Sevilla) April 10, 2023
Once accomplished, the cleansing work is bolstered, divided into three shifts, to scrub all of the areas with wax accumulation on public roads in an effort to have all of the streets of the town operational once more as quickly as potential and to ensure street security by eliminating the wax in strategic locations the place it represents an accident threat for drivers and pedestrians.
Meanwhile, the City Council asks for excessive precautions when strolling and driving by areas with the presence of wax that, with the rise in temperature, melts and reduces the adhesion of the tires.
Water at 400 bar stress to descale the wax
Three teams made up of 17 folks every are in control of eradicating wax from the streets of Seville along with specialised cleansing automobiles. Today’s wax cleansing therapy employs some of the superior techniques. It consists of the appliance of chilly water at very excessive stress, as much as 400 bars, utilizing a driving truck with a pump and a built-in tank, linked to a cart with rotating nozzles that venture the pressurized water onto the pavement, descaling the wax.
The completion of the cleansing therapy for the removing of wax in all of the neighborhoods the place the penance stations for Holy Week 2023 have been carried out will take between three and 4 weeks as a result of issue of the work as a result of incrustation of the wax within the pavement and the necessity to use specialised equipment tailored to the town of Seville. In addition, beginning at present, these wax removing groups will likely be bolstered with pavement restoration groups.
This 12 months, furthermore, data have been damaged for collected wax each in kilometers of monitor and in areas the place the cleansing groups function. And it’s that not solely has no procession been canceled as a result of good climate, but additionally, this Holy Week of 2023 has produced the Holy Great Burial, by which a lot of brotherhoods have come out and which is well known as soon as each twenty years.
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