The town’s pumping system suffered a malfunction two months earlier than the beginning of the Summer time Olympics
Round 50,000 cubic meters of sewage water has been dumped into the Seine River over the previous a number of weeks, because of issues with the pumping system in a suburb to the northwest of Paris, native officers have stated.
The incident occurred two months earlier than the beginning of the Summer time Olympics. The French authorities are speeding to scrub up the river in order that athletes can swim in it throughout triathlon occasions.
“There was a serious malfunction on the community that delivers the wastewater from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine to the remedy plant,” Mayor Laurent Brosse instructed La Gazette du Val d’Oise on Wednesday. He stated that three pumps stopped working because of electrical failure and that non permanent pumps had been put in.
An estimated 50,000 cubic meters of wastewater has been launched into the river for the reason that incident, in keeping with the administration of the Grand Paris Seine et Oise space, which incorporates Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Officers stated that the discharge of contaminated water from the damaged pumping system has been stopped.
The commune of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine is positioned round 24km (15 miles) from central Paris. Officers consider that significantly heavy seasonal rainfall brought on injury to the gear. Locals took to social media to complain concerning the foul scent coming from the river and reported seeing sanitary tissues and wipes floating within the water. Movies circulating on X (previously Twitter) present brown water flowing into the river.
With the triathlon occasions set to kick off on June 30, the Paris authorities have invested €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) into renovating town’s water infrastructure, together with new water storage reservoirs and pumps. Regardless of their finest efforts, nonetheless, the newest checks performed by water charity Surfrider present that the degrees of E. coli and the enterococci micro organism within the Seine are larger than allowed by sports activities federations and European bathing requirements, France 24 reported on Wednesday.
With a purpose to quell issues, French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo promised to take a swim within the river forward of the Olympics.
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