From Mayor Chulvi Facebook Page
THE TOWN HALL COMPLETES THE EMERGENCY FORESTRY WORK AFTER SEPTEMBER’S FIRE. TWO ANCIENT LIME KILNS HAVE BEEN RESTORED ON LA PLANA.
Xàbia Town Hall has completed the urgent work on forestry restoration on La Plana following the fire in September in the Montgo natural park. The municipal biologist, Ignasi Astor, explained that this work, which has lasted almost six months, has required a municipal investment of around 200,000 euros and apart from the environmental work has included activities in the field of ethnographic and cultural heritage.
This entailed the renovation of two ancient lime kilns that were used from Roman times to transform limestone into lime, a basic component of mortar, mortar construction, plastered walls, walls or stucco. The records showed that there formerly existed 54 in various areas of the municipality, mostly in forest areas with abundant supplies of wood and stones. Within the context of works following the fire two kilns known as ‘les faroleres’ have been reconstructed on La Plana’s Cap de Sant Antoni.
Today the mayor, José Chulvi, the Councillor for the Environment, Doris Courcelles, and the head of Heritage, Antonio Miragall visited the completed works.
The mayor highlighted the efforts made by the town to repair the huge environmental damage done by the fire in September and the project carried out to enable the area to recover as a safer forest, implementing detailed measures to improve the biodiversity.
The mayor stated that the Town Hall did not want to sell the wood burned by the fire, but had left it as firewood for the residents as removing it would have affected the restoration work. The initiative of the Tourism Department in producing calendars for sale enabled all citizens who purchased the calendars to contribute to the reforestation fund.
José Chulvi has confirmed the on-going plan of the municipality to continue this project on La Plana and to avoid the situation experienced last year.
On the technical side, the biologist noted that initially the weather following the fire (with no torrential rain) was favourable and encouraged the process of regrowth of shrubs of which there is ample evidence. However, Astor pointed out that in recent weeks the absence of rain and persistent winds have slowed down this process.
