Julio Antonio Mella Stadium

Work on exterior drainage is undertaken at the Julio Antonio Mella Stadium, in Las Tunas, aimed at achieving a better evacuation of the rain and avoid the suspension or delay of games; which will be ready before the start of the National Baseball Series next September 12. 

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Leodán Álvarez Palmero, brigade chief of the Constructora de Recursos Hidráulicos de la province, told the Cuban News Agency that a 600-millimeter collector is being built, with six registers and two four-inch exits each one, to collect all the concentrated liquid in the area outside the sports institution, which will be connected to the drainage of the Railway-Bus Terminal.

Álvarez Palmero affirmed that the construction will collect the entire rainfall spill that falls into the stadium and that it will drain, as planned, in the vicinity of a nearby river.

He stressed, moreover, that the current investment will only amend the presence of water in the external area of the installation; because it would take more time to solve the interior area, taking into account that the works must be carried out inside the ground if rapid water evacuation is to be achieved.

Álvarez Palmero emphasized that the execution, which began on August 13, should have been concluded in the last days of August, but the insufficient cement, due to the situation that the country is going through, delayed the completion of the work.

He assured that the cost of the drainage being built in the Stadium amounts to more than 100,000 pesos and that the work must be completed in these first days of September, to have it ready on the 12th, when the Leñadores (Lumberjacks) from Las Tunas face the Huracanes (Hurricanes) from Mayabeque, at the start of 60th National Series.