He Gijón City Council responds to neighborhood and political criticism for the lack of cleanliness and maintenance in the streets. He recognizes that the city does not look its best but asks for collaboration to achieve it. “Since the confinement ended, the abandonment of furniture on public roads has doubled,” gave as an example the Councilor for Maintenance, Olmo Ron, who is committed to recovering the normality altered by the state of alarm.
EMULSA already has four deratization equipment and has started to test an electronic trapping system to reduce the rat population in the city. A system that will remain in tests until the end of the year and then “we will study if we begin to use it in a generalized way,” added the Socialist mayor. The supplying company will also carry out an estimated study on the number of rodents that inhabit the local sewage network.
A special plan for exterior cleaning of urban containers, as well as its closest surroundings, in the more than 1,500 existing deposit stations throughout the city. Jobs that will be undertaken by five teams in three shifts “with a pressure sanitizing and odorizing solution.”
The staff of the municipal company has been reinforced with 179 temporary workers from the new job board.
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