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Editorial Courrier du Pays de Retz
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Nov 8, 2024 at 12:27 p.m.
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“Water is a common good”, but which is set to become even more expensive for the consumer in 2025, in the 148 communes of the territory of the Atlantic'eau union.
This is the announcement made by the president of the union, Frédéric MilletWednesday November 6, 2024 in Paimboeuf, during the signing of the renewal of the public service delegation for the territories of the Sud Estuaire and Val Saint-Martin Community of Communes*.
However, we will have to wait a few more weeks, at the end of the union meeting in December which will ratify this decision, to know the amount of the increase, knowing that Atlantic'eau has already carried out a revaluation of the price of the cubic meter in 2024.
Here we go again for eight years
And so this is the company Véolia which is renewed to operate the union's facilities in these two territories of the country of Retz, for a period of eight years, starting January 1, 2025.
A decision taken following major negotiations, during which the company had to present all guarantees for the monitoring and maintenance of drinking water production and delivery installations, in particular for limit leaks as much as possible on the network and be able to intervene as quickly as possible in the event of a problem.
“If the objectives are not achieved, there are penalties,” stipulates Frédéric Millet.
“We want to develop technologies to deal with the resource problem,” says Alexander Mallinsonregional director of Veolia water for the Central West region, “attached to the public service of drinking water management in order to guarantee its quality”.
No more remote reading, return to human reading
Remote reading of water meters will not be continued, because the experiment carried out in 2012 was not conclusive. Meter reading will now be carried out by a field agent for all users in the territories of the Sud Estuaire Community of Communes and Val Saint-Martin. But a study is underway to analyze the advisability of a generalized implementation of remote reading across the Atlantic'eau territory. In addition to supplying tap water, Veolia is responsible for monitoring the Gros Caillou and Gâtineaux dams, the production of drinking water at the Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef drinking water plant, the reading meters, billing, repairing leaks on the public network.
The giant pipe soon to be completed
Furthermore, the Atlantic'eau union is finishing, “a little late due to the unfavorable weather this year”, the enormous connection project between the north and south Loire, a 600 mm feeder diameter to allow secure supply water in Loire-Atlantique, and in particular in the Pays de Retz.
This new 17 km pipeline, which passes under the bed of the Loire, must be put into service during the summer of 2025.
254,000 subscribers in Loire-Atlantique
Public service in charge of drinking water, Atlantic'eau is a departmental union placed under the responsibility of local elected officials. Founded on a principle of solidarity, it ensures that drinking water is brought to a person every day. single rate and “fair for all subscribers in its territory, whatever the available resource”, specifies the union.
254,000 subscribers are connected to the service.
* The municipalities of Val-Saint-Martin: Les Moutiers-en-Retz, La Bernerie-en-Retz, Pornic,
Préfailles, La Plaine-sur-Mer and Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef. The communes of the South Estuary Community of Communes concerned: Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins, Saint-Père-en-Retz, Corsept, Paimboeuf and Saint-Viaud.
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