He The town hall from Cordoba reported this Wednesday that the mayor, José María Bellido, and the president of the Municipal Directorate of Urban Planning, Miguel Ángel Torrico, visited the Albolafia Mill where the cleaning and clearance works in the surroundings of the building have already been completed. monument. This is a highly anticipated intervention which will improve the condition and image of an emblematic monument of the city.
This work began on September 24 and is part of the urgent documentation, diagnosis, preventive conservation and specific consolidation actions entrusted to the company. Archaeobetics for an amount of 45,375 euros and a period of two months.
This contract aims to implement actions aimed at sidewalk he deterioration of the property, and includes an in-depth analysis of the origin and evolution of the building, a study of pathologies and a maintenance program.
With reference to jobs who were do From the start of the actions, this includes clearing the roads and adapting the land; clearance of the area surrounding the Mill and the suitability of the land to carry out the work; discovery of the spillway; removal of vegetation from main decks; injection of herbicide into the roots that appeared on the cover of running water; clean the land surrounding the wheel and carry out tastings to study the state of conservation of the wood blocked by silt.
The mayor and the Town Planning Councilor, during their visit to the Moulin d’Albolafia
In the North and East facadeswere developed representations of elimination of vegetation; deep application of herbicide to the resulting roots; sawing of tree vegetation (fig or poplar); application of biocide to observe its behavior in the face of biological attack and on the support; cleaning by brushing from the water cut to the start of the lower arch of the north facade.
Part of these tasks is carried out within the framework working at height with operators stalled in the canal area due to the difficulty of installing scaffolding or approaching machines. It should be remembered that these actions had to be delayed this summer due to the spill, carried out by the CHG, to facilitate irrigated crops, which made the work and installation of the structures impossible due to the flooding of the river.
The second phase of the Albolafia mill will cost one million
Once this first phase is completed, in the the next few days will start a new batch which include specific consolidations by injection and filling of factory cavities and lime nanoparticles; exchange and replacement of a cut stone, to check the suitability of the stone for use in subsequent phases; spot repair on the wheel for replacement of the wood, gluing, decoupling adjustments, retying and final treatment (only under witness) with teak oil for the wood and intervention on the metal elements.
Regarding these actions, the mayor indicated that “the work being carried out these weeks will allow allow a reliable diagnosis to be obtained of the state of conservation of the monument to, subsequently, propose a second phase of work, much more ambitious both in the budget and in the actions, which will aim at the restoration of one of the symbols of the city. It is enough to remember that the city councilor had stressed in June that this second phase would require a budget of one million.
“We continue to work to preserve our Historical heritage because it is one of our characteristics and an undeniable attraction for the thousands of people who visit us every year,” declared the city councilor.
